Senior NLP Scientist [2021-present]

@ Sumitovant Biopharma.

PostDoctoral Research Fellow [2019-2021]

@ the Lister Hill Center, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) . Mentor Dr. Dina Demner-Fushman and Dr. Asma Ben Abacha.

Research Interests (my publications):

• Natural Language Processing

• Question Answering

• Visual Question Ansering

• Information Retrieval

• Extracting Information from Biomedical Text

• Machine and Deep Learning

• Biomedical Informatics

Current Projects:

• Question Answering

• Visual Question Answering

• Misinformation

• Adverse Drug Reaction Extraction

• Relation extraction from free-text

• Social Media and Information extraction

• Document reranking using deep learning

• Triple extraction <subject, predicate, object> from free-text using deep learning

• Automated approach for creating training datasets in NLP.

Professional Activities:

• Editorial review board member of the International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

• Reviewer for :

  • ACL, EMNLP and COLING

  • Methods of Information in Medicine

  • Journal of Biomedical Informatics

  • International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

  • Soft Computing

Awards:

• One of the Fifth BioASQ challenge winners, BioNLP, ACL'2017. A biomedical Question Answering System in BioASQ 2017.

• One of the 2021 BioASQ challenge winners, NLM at BioASQ Synergy 2021: Deep Learning-based Methods for Biomedical Semantic Question Answering about COVID-19. .