Sumithra Velupillai

I am a lecturer in Applied Health Informatics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, UK and NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. 

I first joined IoPPN in 2016 as a visiting researcher at IoPPN within an International Career Grant funded by the Swedish Research Council and Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, and started the position as lecturer in 2019. Prior to my time at the IoPPN I was a postdoc in USA and did my doctoral studies at Stockholm University.  

My main research interests are in the area of Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP), in particular semantic and contextual analysis. Over the last few years I have worked on creating annotated resources and developing NLP tools for e.g. uncertainty detection and temporal expressions in Swedish and English clinical texts and social media data.  

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing 
• Information Extraction 
• Data Science