Invited Talks

A list of invited presentations and keynote lectures. Presentation slides are available where possible.

2025: Knowledge-based diagnosis of genetic disease Keynote lecture, InSyB 2025, Doha, Qatar.
2025: Machine learning with Semantic Web ontologies Fudan University. [PDF]
2025: Causal Knowledge Graphs: Bridging Knowledge Representation and Causal Inference Statistics Department, Jinan University of Finance and Economics.
2025: Population-specific pangenome graph of Japan and Saudi Arabia Barbados Workshop on Pangenome Graphs, Holetown, Barbados.
2024: Neuro-symbolic AI reveals the functions of proteins in complex systems Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) World Congress, Dresden, Germany.
2024: Using AI to explore genomes for disease-causing variants in rare disease King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2024: Draft of a Saudi Pangenome Graph PacBio Day, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
2024: Causal relationships between diseases: application to risk prediction, detecting pleiotropic effects of variants, and adverse drug events International Conference for Statistics and Data Science, Nice, France.
2024: Machine learning and deep learning to predict protein functions and phenotypes YuShan Scholar Lecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
2023: The need for background knowledge in AI-based diagnosis of rare disease MEGMA Symposium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2023: Interpreting text, data, and knowledge .. all at once Biocuration Workshop on Machine Learning and Biocuration, International Biocuration Society, Virtual.
2023: Machine learning with biomedical ontologies Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing Speaker Series, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2023: Machine learning with biomedical ontologies Data Science and Analytics Thrust Seminar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong, China
2023: The neuro-symbolic method in biology Keynote lecture, Empowering Education in Sciences with AI Workshop, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
2022: Machine learning with Semantic Web ontologies Research seminar, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2022: The coevolution of ontologies and knowledge-based analytics in bioinformatics Keynote Lecture, Chinese Conference on Biomedical Ontology and Terminology (CCBOT), Beijing, China
2022: The coevolution of ontologies and knowledge-based analytics in bioinformatics Special Invited Lecture, International Conference of Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO), Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2022: Machine learning with Semantic Web ontologies CS Seminar, University of Paderborn, Germany
2022: The quest for general AI through research in bioinformatics ZB-MED Research Seminar, German Central Library of Medicine, Cologne, Germany.
2022: Machine learning with biomedical ontologies Summer Journal Club, University of Pittsburgh, USA. [PDF]
2022: Machine learning and semantic similarity with (biomedical) ontology CCB Seminar, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
2022: Embeddings for Semantic Web ontologies L3S Seminar, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. [PDF]
2022: Embeddings for Semantic Web ontologies Goethe Center for Scientific Computing, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. [PDF]
2022: Beyond knowledge graphs: machine learning with ontologies Data Science Institute, Maastricht University, Netherlands.
2022: Machine learning with OWL ontologies Data Science and Computational Statistics Seminar, University of Birmingham, UK. [PDF]
2022: Next steps in machine learning with ontologies Logic seminar, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
2022: A biased story of diagnosing rare disease and finding the drugs to treat them Computational Biology Seminar, University of Birmingham, UK.
2022: Machine learning with biomedical ontologies: applications to precision health Seminar Series on Computational \& Systems Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
2021: Machine learning with biomedical ontologies for precision health Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML), Virtual.
2021: Artificial intelligence (AI) methods for precision health in rare disease research 2nd International Middle East Genetics and Metabolic Academy (MEGMA) Symposium, Dubai, UAE.
2021: Machine learning with biomedical ontologies for precision health Workshop on Harnessing Big Data for Precision Medicine and Healthcare, Leibniz AI Labs, Hanover, Germany.
2019: Evaluating ontology modules from the perspective of machine learning Keynote lecture, 4th International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution, Graz, Austria.
2019: AI in Genomics: Analyzing large and complex datasets 2nd AI Week Middle East, Dubai, UAE.
2019: AI in Healthcare MILE Leadership Forum, Madinah, KSA.
2019: AI for Genomics and Health CIPM Seminar, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA.
2019: AI Technologies for Variant Interpretation Saudi Society of Human Genetics Conference, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, KSA.
2018: Symbolic AI in Computational Biology Keynote lecture, the Eighth BEAR PGR Conference \& Users Forum, University of Birmingham, UK.
2018: Genomics and AI AI Week Middle East, Dubai, UAE.
2018: Learning from Semantic Biological Data Research Seminar, Warwick University, UK.
2018: Learning from Semantic Biological Data Research Seminar, Swansea University, UK.
2018: Learning from Semantic Biological Data Research Seminar, Aberystwyth University, UK.
2018: Learning from Semantic Biological Data Research Seminar, Bangor University, UK.
2018: Semantic prioritization of causative variants in oligogenic disease Research Seminar, Leiden University Hospital, Holland.
2018: Learning from Semantic Biological Data Research Seminar, Northeastern University, US.
2018: Symbolic AI in Computational Biology Bioinformatics Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK.
2017: Combining symbolic and statistical AI methods for biomedical data analysis Research seminar, IIIS, Tsinghua University.
2017: Semantic prioritization of novel causative variants Research seminar, Peking University.
2017: The Semantic Web -- Bioinformatics applications Lecture in CS, Tsinghua University.
2017: Symbolic AI in Computational Biology Special Research Seminar, Scripps Research Institute.
2017: Symbolic AI in Computational Biology Biomedical Informatics Research Seminar, Stanford University.
2017: Symbolic AI in Computational Biology Special Research Seminar, University of Colorado Denver.
2017: Symbolic AI in Computational Biology Research Seminar, Maastricht University.
2017: Ontologies in Biology Colloquium in Honor of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Herre on the Occassion of his 75th Birthday, University of Leipzig.
2016: Ontologies of phenotypes and their applications in personalized medicine CS Seminar, University of Murcia.
2016: Mobilizing and integrating phenotype data Biodiversity-Informatics Seminar, Senckenberg Institute for Biodiversity.
2013: From ontologies to translational medicine CS Seminar, University of Rostock.
2012: From ontologies to translational medicine Invited External Speaker, European Bioinformatics Institute.
2012: Phenotype informatics and translational research IMISE Kolloqium, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig.
2012: Ontologies for integrating and analyzing phenotypes Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.
2012: My ontology is better than your! Building and evaluating ontologies for integrative research Keynote lecture, Bio-Ontologies Meeting (co-located with ISMB 2012)
2011: Exploring phenotype data for information about rare diseases Department of Computer Science, University of Capetown.
2011: Ontologies for representing, integrating and analyzing phenotypes AIC Seminar, Stanford Research Institute.
2011: Towards integration of biomedical ontologies and systems biology Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE).
2011: Integrating systems biology and biomedical ontologies Workshop on Modelling interoperability, European Bioinformatics Institute.
2010: Interoperability between biomedical ontologies Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Management Research Group, University Mannheim.
2010: The ontology of biomedical sequences IMISE Kolloqium, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig.
2010: Perspectives for the ontology of phenotypes Ontology Interest Group, European Bioinformatics Institute.
2010: An introduction to formal ontology Ontology Interest Group, European Bioinformatics Institute.
2008: Towards interoperability between anatomy and phenotype ontologies Dagstuhl seminar Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences : Current Status and Future Perspectives.
2007: Interoperability, non-monotonicity and core ontologies Dagstuhl seminar Towards Interoperability of Biomedical Ontologies.