The current TEAM
We are part of the Text Mining/NLP research group within the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, and are affiliated with Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. The current TEAM includes
- Dr Goran Nenadic, Senior Lecturer, research leader
- Dr George Karystianis, PDRA (clinical text mining)
- Azad Dehghan, PhD student (medical text mining and process modelling, with J. Keane)
- Mona Zaki, PhD Student (data quality aspects of question and answer reports, with C. Theodoulidis)
- Rosyzie Anna Apong, PhD Student (text analytics and semantic analysis)
- Michele Filannino, PhD Student (temporal clinical text mining, with G. Brown)
- Ruth Stoney, PhD Student (with J-M. Schwartz and D. Robertson)
- Nikola Milošević, PhD Student (biomedical table mining and data curation, with R. Hernandez and C. Gregson, AstraZeneca)
- Dr Jenny Newman, PhD Student (continuous surveillance of companion animal disease from clinical free-text, with P. Jones, P-J. Noble and A. Radford - SAVSNET)
- Dr Warren Read, PDRA (ontology development, the BioHub-1 project, with R. Stevens and Unilever)
- Dr George Demetriou, PDRA (text mining, the BioHub-2 project, with R. Stevens and Unilever)
Collaborators
- Prof John Keane (Computer Science) on data and text mining;
- Prof Robert Stevens (Computer Science) on ontology learning;
- Dr Casey Bergman (Faculty of Life Sciences) on text mining and bioinformatics;
- Prof David Robertson (Faculty of Life Science) on bioinformatics;
- Prof Iain Buchan (HeRC) on health informatics;
- Dr. Jean-Marc Schwartz (Faculty of Life Science) on logical modelling and disease systems biology;
- Dr Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann on text mining, service architectures;
- Dr Irena Spasic (University of Cardiff) on text mining;
- Dr Aleksandar Kovacevic, Chair of Informataics, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
- Dr Stavros Staviros (Faculty of Medicine) on clinical decision support;
- Prof Georg Brabant (Christie) on clinical experiment validation;
- Rob Hernandez (AstraZeneca);
- Clinical Outcome Unit, the Christie Hospital, Manchester.
- The Small Animal Veterinary Surveillance Network (SAVSNET) (in association with the University of Liverpool) on veterinary medicine;
- Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Dr Jerry White, Unilever
Alumni
- Dr Geraint Duck, PhD student (now with Singenta)
- Dr Daniel Jamieson, PhD student (now with BioRelate)
- Dr Chengkun Wu, PhD Student (now wit NUDT, China)
- Dr George Karystianis, PhD student and PDRA (still with us)
- Dr Farzaneh Sarafraz, PhD student (now with Google)
- Dr Martin Gerner, PhD student (now with Avego)
- Dr Hammad Afzal, PhD student (now Ass. Prof at NUST, Pakistan)
- Dr Joachim Baran, Research Associate (now with Ontario Institute for Cancer Research)
- Dr Seemab Latif, PhD student (now Ass. Prof at NUST, Pakistan)
- Mark Greenwood, MPhil student (now at the University of Cardiff)
- Dr James Eales, Research Assistant (now with University of Leicester)
- Dr Ann Gledson, Research Assistant (still with us in Manchester)
- Dr Hui Yang, Research Assistant (now with the Open University)
- Roy Sandjaja, MSc student (now with Oracle, UK)
- Naomi Krishnarajah, MPhil student (now with IIT, Sri Lanka)