Zina Ibrahim

Dr Zina Ibrahim is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at King's College London, affiliated with the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. She joined King's College in 2011 as a Postdoctoral Researcher and transitioned to her current position in 2016. Her academic background includes a BSc in Software Engineering (2003), an MSc (2004), and a PhD (2010) in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Windsor, Canada.

Her research focuses on theoretical foundations of knowledge representation and machine learning applied to biomedical knowledge discovery and medical decision support systems. Key areas include neurosymbolic AI, trustworthiness in medical AI, and EHR analysis. Notable projects include the myHealthE remote monitoring system and the SemEHR semantic search framework.

Recent publications emphasize medical AI applications such as time-series imputation, clinical text summarization, and adverse drug event detection. Her work bridges technical AI advancements with clinical implementation challenges in NHS settings.

• Key Achievements: Winner of the Government's AI Fairness Innovation Challenge (2024)
• Teaching: Leads courses on Machine Learning for Health and Bioinformatics, and Health Informatics fundamentals.
• Lab Affiliation: Member of the Precision Health Informatics Group and actively involved in interdisciplinary collaborations.