About
Mohamed Abdalla is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii and an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. His research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing, clinical informatics and AI ethics. He is specifically interested in identifying and addressing gaps in the translation of academic AI research to real-world clinical deployments.
Awards
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, NSERC (2019)
- Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-Doctoral), NSERC (2019)
Relevant Publications
- Abdalla, M., Vishnubhotla, K., & Mohammad, S. (2023, May). “What Makes Sentences Semantically Related? A Textual Relatedness Dataset and Empirical Study.” In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 782-796).
- Abdalla, M., & Abdalla, M. (2021, July). “The grey hoodie project: Big tobacco, big tech, and the threat on academic integrity.” In Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 287-297).
- Abdalla, M., Abdalla, M., Rudzicz, F., & Hirst, G. (2020). “Using word embeddings to improve the privacy of clinical notes.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27(6), 901-907.