Professor Karin Verspoor is Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. She is passionate about using artificial intelligence to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support from data. Her work has a specific emphasis on the use of natural language processing to transform unstructured data in biomedicine into actionable information.

Her contributions to AI and Digital Health have been recognised through selection as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and as a 2021 “Brilliant Woman in Digital Health”. She is a co-founder and the Victoria node lead of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, and a Director of BioGrid Australia.