Bevan Koopman

Dr. Bevan Koopman leads the Health Search team at CSIRO's Australian e-Health Research Centre and serves as Associate Professor in Language Technologies at University of Queensland. His research develops AI systems for clinical information retrieval, focusing on evidence-based medicine and health decision support.

Current work examines large language models for medical question answering, automated clinical trial matching, and systematic review acceleration. Methodologies combine neural ranking, query refinement, and domain-specific knowledge integration.

Publications demonstrate innovations in semantic search for medical records, Boolean query generation for systematic reviews, and conversational agents for agricultural health questions. Recent work evaluates ChatGPT for health information reliability.

Teaching emphasizes quantitative skills development in biosciences. Funded projects include MathBench Australia for improving STEM education and automated diagnostic coding systems.