Janna Hastings
Senior Research Scientist at Idiap Research Institute
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJanna Hastings is a senior research scientist with 15 years' experience at the intersection of medical data science, semantic AI, and clinical decision support, currently leading human-centered health AI research at Idiap. She has held joint academic appointments at the University of Zurich and the University of St. Gallen, where she translated ontology and neuro-symbolic methods into practical clinical information systems and evidence synthesis workflows. Her background spans bioinformatics, ontology engineering, and formal methods—work that ranges from developing the Open Energy Ontology to bioinformatics of neurodegenerative disease and ontologies for behaviour change. Trained as a PhD biologist with advanced degrees in computer science and philosophy, she blends technical rigor with philosophical curiosity to tackle how digitalisation impacts clinicians and healthcare users. Colleagues know her as an interdisciplinary nerd who can bridge theory and deployment, making complex semantic technologies usable in real-world care settings.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MA Philosophy, MA Philosophy at The Open UniversityBSc Mathematics Computer Science, BSc Mathematics Computer Science at University of Cape TownPhD Biology/Biological Sciences General, PhD Biology/Biological Sciences General at University of CambridgeUniversity of South Africa
Github Skills (41)
foundry10
open-science10
tuple10
ontologies10
ontology10
semantic-web10
open-source10
energy10
metadata10
geneontology10
addiction10
bioinformatics10
rdf10
owl10
semantics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jannahastings/ontologies
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
A repository for the BCIO ontology
Contributions:41 PRs, 35 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 1 month
obofoundryontologiesowl
HumanBehaviourChangeProject/semantic-prediction
Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
The repository for the HBCP semantic-enhanced prediction system
Contributions:1 PR, 65 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
deep-learningmachine-learningpredictionsemantic
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