Bevan Koopman
Health AI Team Lead & Principal Research Scientist at The University of Queensland
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolBevan Koopman is a Health AI leader and principal research scientist with 13 years of experience translating information retrieval and NLP research into deployed healthcare systems. He leads CSIRO’s Health Data and Machine Learning team and holds a concurrent principal research fellowship at the University of Queensland, where he has developed LLM-based search and recommendation tech for clinical and research use. His work spans ranking, matching, evaluation and human–AI interaction, and he has a track record of supervising PhD and postdoctoral researchers while delivering published, production-ready prototypes that improved patient decision-making. Trained as a PhD in data science with an award-winning thesis on semantic search, Bevan combines deep academic rigour with practical engineering and productisation skills. He also has a history of building systems adopted by national institutions and a knack for adapting general AI methods to highly domain-specific health problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Data Science, PhD, Data Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)BInfoTech (Hons I), Software Engineering, BInfoTech (Hons I), Software Engineering at The University of QueenslandInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Emirates International School
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Github Skills (78)
speaker9
lucene9
information-retrieval9
graphic8
extraction8
java8
search-engine8
medical7
elasticsearch7
rest7
python7
angular-app7
named-entity-recognition7
bert7
grammar7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ielab/relevation
Mar 2013 - Jan 2022
Information Retrieval Relevance Judging System
Contributions:38 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 8 years 11 months
information-retrieval
bevankoopman/phd
Feb 2013 - May 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 9 years 4 months
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