Annette Mary Spooner

Dr. Annette Mary Spooner is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from UNSW (2023) and specializes in applying machine learning to medical challenges, particularly Alzheimer’s disease and liver cancer research. Her work focuses on multi-modal classification models for high-dimensional data, ensemble methods, and multi-omics integration.

Her research interests include machine learning applications in healthcare, temporal pattern mining for longitudinal clinical data, and biomarker discovery. She has contributed to projects analyzing Alzheimer’s risk factors and hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis using advanced data integration techniques.

Dr. Spooner has published in journals like BMC Bioinformatics and Briefings in Bioinformatics, with a focus on improving clinical outcome predictions through machine learning innovations. Her work bridges computer science and medicine, addressing urgent healthcare challenges with computational solutions.