Professor Karin Verspoor

Professor Karin Verspoor is Dean, School of Computing Technologies, College of STEM at RMIT University. She was previously a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems and Deputy Director of the Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre at The University of Melbourne. Trained as a computational linguist, Karin’s research primarily focuses on extracting information from clinical texts and the biomedical literature using machine learning methods to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support. Karin held previous posts as the Scientific Director of Health and Life Sciences at NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. She also spent 5 years in start-ups during the US Tech bubble, where she helped design an early artificial intelligence system.