The Team: Enhancing the Data Infrastructure

Honghan Wu jointly leads the Clinical NLP Group at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Wu is a Lecturer in Health Informatics at UCL, London and a Rutherford Research  Fellow doing clinical data science in Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh.

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Beatrice Alex jointly leads the Clinical NLP Group at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Alex is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

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Huayu Zhang is a Research Fellow for ACRC. He has background of both clinical data science and biomedical sciences. His research focus on the application of knowledge graph in biomedical knowledge integration and prediction. He is also interested in integration of computable knowledge into predictive modelling. 

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Sophie McCall is a Data Analyst within DataLoch, having previously worked as an Information Analyst within Outpatients Redesign team in NHS Lothian. She has experience of working with laboratory data having worked as a Biomedical Scientist specialising in Transfusion Science, as well as Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety.

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Arlene Casey is a Research Fellow for ACRC with a background in industrial mathematics and a PhD in computational linguistics. She has over 15 years’ experience mainly working in Informatics within Pharmaceutical research but also in the Social Housing sector.  Her research interests are in developing natural language processing and machine learning techniques for the representation, extraction, and generation of semantic information from structured and unstructured data.

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