AutoPeptideML: A study on how to build more trustworthy peptide bioactivity predictors
- Raúl Fernández Díaz
- Rodrigo Cossio-pérez
- et al.
- 2024
- Bioinformatics
Vanessa Lopez is a senior researcher scientist at IBM Research Ireland since 2012 and manager of the AI for Health and Social Care team.
My research interests are to investigate how technology can be made “smarter” to better understand human needs, and support us, as a society, to target complex problems. My research looks at semantics and knowledge graph representations to enhance NLP and learning technologies, applied to assist human experts, from protecting healthcare programs integrity, reducing disparities and improving the delivery of care for the most vulnerable , to most recently, using knowledge to enhance accelerated scientific discovery, to help experts reduce the search space of possible candidate solutions.
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We look at research and core technologies that may help us accelerate scientific discovery by leveraging knowledge from diverse and multimodal sources, such as as scientific literature and human-curated large knowledge graphs, and create learned knowledge representations that can be used in various downstream tasks. For example, to build predictive and generative models for knowledge completion and candidate solution generation. This research can be explored for drug discovery, to use existent rich multimodal knowledge to enhanced learned protein and molecule knowledge representations ; or to find relevant features to accelerate clinical trials, for example to improve cohort diversity and engagement .
Our previous research has been applied to envision and develop applications in the Social and Health care domain, to support care professionals to take better informed decisions, and received various awards, including the 2017 US-Ireland Innovation from the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. Past projects include:
Before IBM, I was a research associate and a part-time PhD at KMi, Open University (2003-2011), where I got my doctorate. I was the project champion and main developer of AquaLog and PowerAqua, pioneering prototypes for Natural Language interfaces for the Semantic Web / Linked Data, published in in major international journals and conferences, and participated in various EU projects on the topics of IR, query disambiguation, ontology augmentation and semantic search. Prior to that I worked at the European Space Agency (ESA) (2002-2003) and graduated in 2002 (M.Sc) at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (1996-2002), where I carried out an internship as part of the AI department.
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Projects highlighted in Medium: Otter Knowledge: https://medium.com/ibm-data-ai/otter-knowledge-2400afe3fe17 Zshot: https://medium.com/ibm-data-ai/zshot-an-overview-37b7ab608cc2
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