Yusuf Abdulle
About Me
Hey there, welcome! I’m currently a Research Assistant at the Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, where I am part of the KnowLab, a research group that works on AI in Healthcare.
Prior to this role, I served as a Data Scientist at a TechBio startup, Research Assistant @ UCL Institute of Neurology and as a Clinical Research Assistant working on the COVID-19 vaccine trials @ the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust. My educational background includes a Master’s degree in Clinical Neuroscience from University College London and a Bachelor’s degree with First Class Honours in Biomedical Science from the University of Brighton.
Research Interests
My research interests are at the intersection of health and data science, particularly in deep learning techniques. Currently, my work is focused on these following areas:
- Exploring the application of Knowledge Graphs and Graph Neural Networks in rare neurodegenerative disease diagnosis and prognosis.
- Conducting a systematic review on “Peripheral and CSF inflammatory markers in individuals with ALS and FTD”
News
- [April 2024] - Preprint titled “Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction in Chest X-ray Analysis using Vision and Language Model with Eye Gaze Patterns” is released.
- [January 2024] - Paper titled “Understanding neck collar preferences and user experiences in motor neuron disease: A survey-based study” is released.
- [December 2023] - Two papers, titled “Scoping review of knowledge graph applications in biomedical and healthcare sciences” & “Benchmarking and Analyzing In-context Learning, Fine-tuning and Supervised Learning for Biomedical Knowledge Curation: a focused study on chemical entities of biological interest” are released on preprint!
- [Sep 2023] - Joined KnowLab @ UCL Institute of Health Informatics as a Research Assistant, to work on Knowledge Graphs, GNNs and supervision of students and interns.
- [June 2023] - Participated in poster presentation to the 2nd Symposium on Knowledge Graphs, run by the Alan Turing Knowledge Graph Interest Group on work titled “Scoping review of knowledge graph applications in biomedical and healthcare sciences”.
- [March 2023] - Paper titled “Neck Collar Assessment for People Living With Motor Neuron Disease: Are Current Outcome Measures Suitable?” is published in JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies.
