Ian Simpson
Director at UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Innovation
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Simpson is a Professor and Director specializing in biomedical informatics and AI at the University of Edinburgh, leading national doctoral training programmes that bridge computational methods and clinical research. With a D.Phil. in Genetics from Oxford and over a decade of experience, he develops multimodal data-integration and machine learning methods—notably graph neural networks and biomedical NLP—to decode neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative and rare genetic diseases. His lab uniquely combines clinical notes and healthcare metadata with genomics and high-throughput molecular data to create patient- and molecular-network models that learn jointly from heterogeneous sources. He has a strong track record in applying these approaches to autism, Parkinson’s and cancer, and brings deep roots in regulatory genomics and transcription-factor biology that inform his systems-level modelling.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
D.Phil. Genetics, D.Phil. Genetics at University of Oxford
English
Github Skills (8)
biomedical7
bioinformatics6
retrieval5
pipeline5
r-package5
throughput1
genomics1
sequencing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
statbio/topOnto
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
r-packageenrichmentenrichment-analysis
biomedicalinformaticsgroup/biomedicalinformaticsgroup.github.io
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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