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Research interests:Machine learning and its applications to health and wellness, mathematical modeling, performance evaluation | |||||||||||||||||||
Bio:Dr Hanna Suominen works as a machine learning researcher in the Human Performance Improvement project at NICTA Canberra Research Laboratory, Australia. She also holds an adjunct position in the Australian National University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Canberra, Australia and is a post doc researcher of the Academy of Finland. Dr Hanna Suominen has a strong expertise in health care services and information systems. Her PhD dissertation on machine learning and clinical text has honours of belonging to the 10 % elite of the field internationally. She has coordinated a Finnish consortium for developing health information and language technology as well as contributed to similar international research networks. She has worked in the Finnish national positron emission centre and taught numerous university courses on bioinformatics and information systems in healthcare. Her other research merits include approximately 35 scientific publications, two best paper awarded contributions, the third prize in the International Medical Natural Language Processing Challenge 2007, Venture Cup 2007-2008 award further funding for research commercialization, and several personal and collaborative research grants (e.g., Academy of Finland, Nordforsk, Tekes). Her language skills include excellent or native English, Finnish and Swedish. Please do not hesitate to contact Dr Suominen for research collaboration or MSc/PhD projects. See http://www.nicta.com.au/people/hanna_suominen for further details and student projects. | |||||||||||||||||||
Research School of Computer Science
ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science
