KnowLab

Members

Team Lead
Dr Honghan Wu is an associate professor at Institute of Health Informatics, UCL. He is a former Turing Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. Dr Wu holds a PhD in Computing Science. His current research focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge graph and their applications in medicine. He co-leads Edinburgh Clinical NLP group. He also serves as an editorial board member of these journals: BMC Digital Health and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. For PhD opportunities, please check his UCL webpage.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Huayu Zhang is a Research Fellow based in Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He is working on network analysis and knowledge graph techniques for gene prioritisation.
drawing Research Fellow
Abul Hasan joined us in Nov 2022 as a research fellow based in Institute of Health Informatics, UCL. He is working on deep learning and clinical NLP on NIHR funded project, AIM-CISC.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Harry Wilde is a part-time postdoctoral researcher working on the QMIA project on "Quantifying and Mitigating Bias affecting and induced by AI in Medicine". Harry will start full time from July 2024.
drawing Research Assistant
Yusuf Abdulle is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Health Informatics, University College London. He's currently using Graph Neural Networks and Knowledge Graphs to enhance early diagnosis of rare neurodegenerative diseases.

PhD Students

PhD candidates (co-) supervised at KnowLab

Charlotte is based in Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. She studies antidepressant and antipsychotic drug prescribing in people with diabetes.
Farah Francis is based at Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. She works on machine learning methods for detecting and predicting fetal hypoxia.
Jinge is based at the Institute of Health Informatics, UCL. She works on AI in Healthcare, including disease modelling/phenotyping, clinical NLP with multimodal data.
Quang is based at the Institute of Health Informatics and also Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL. He works on AI technologies for ophthalmology using both unstructured and structured Electronic Health Records.
Mohanad is based at the Institute of Health Informatics UCL. He works on predictive models of disease comorbidity using Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Feiyi is based in the University of Helsinki, funded by a joint programme with University of Edinburgh. She is working on using deep learning and NLP for translating free-text queries in to structured SQL queries. She will be doing research with us from the Feb 2023 for a period of one year.
Yunsoo is based at the Institute of Health Informatics, UCL. He works on multimodal large language model in health data. His research interest also includes applications of the models in diagnosis and prognosis of neurodiseases such as dementia.

Visiting Researchers

Yue Gao is a PhD student from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Funded by CSC, Yue is visiting KnowLab for one year doing research on human in the loop AI models for automated clinical coding.

Interns

MSc Students

Undergraduate Students

Alumni