Denis Newman-griffis
Theme Lead In AI For Health at UK Young Academy
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDenis Newman-Griffis is a transdisciplinary data scientist and academic leader with 11 years of experience building and evaluating medical AI systems, particularly at the intersection of NLP, disability, and responsible design. He currently leads the AI for Health theme at the Centre for Machine Intelligence and serves as Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, after roles at NIH, University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD from Ohio State. Denis has developed some of the first NLP methods and annotated corpora for capturing lived experiences of disability and functional status, and he pioneers critical-disability perspectives on AI design and evaluation. He combines rigorous technical work in biomedical informatics with scholarship in critical data studies to shape best practices for equitable health AI. Active in research leadership and policy, he co-chairs the UK Young Academy and leads a Responsible AI in research-funding project at RoRI. Colleagues note his knack for translating nuanced clinical language into practical computational tools that inform both research and regulation.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science/Russian, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science/Russian at Carleton CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The Ohio State UniversityUniversity of Pittsburgh
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
representation-learning10
python10
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
corpus-linguistics9
scalable9
biomedical9
medical8
snomed-ct8
bazel8
deep-neural-networks8
build-system8
ml8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
drgriffis/drgriffis.github.io
Nov 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
OSU-slatelab/JET
Mar 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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