Team

Scientists

 

Dr. rer. nat. Alpha Tom Kodamullil

I joined SCAI in 2012 as a student and currently leading the group of Applied Semantics. My research focuses on knowledge graphs around diseases and shared semantics which lay the foundation of data and knowledge interoperability.


Projects: NeuroMMSig, PathMe, VitualBrainCloud

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Dr. Heval Atas Güvenilir

 

With a background in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Health Informatics, I joined Fraunhofer SCAI as a scientist in December 2023. My research focuses on constructing biomedical knowledge graphs and employing AI algorithms, to advance personalized medicine applications.


Projects:
COMMITMENT, eBRAIN-Health, COMMUTE

 

Sathvik Guru Rao

 

I joined Fraunhofer SCAI in December 2022 as a scientist. My research focuses on using semantics to construct and integrate ontologies and knowledge graphs.

 

Projects: WHO

 

Dr. rer. nat. Vanessa Lage-Rupprecht

I am a neurobiologist and joined Fraunhofer SCAI BIO in November 2018. My work focuses on assembly of biomedical document collections suitable for computing and analytics and specification of user requirements in context of biomedical software and user application development.

Projects:
Human Brain Pharmacome, NRL

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Dr. rer. nat. Karim Saber Shalaby

 

I joined Fraunhofer SCAI as a student researcher in April 2023. After obtaining my Master’s degree and Dr.rer.nat. from the University of Bonn, I rejoined Fraunhofer SCAI since May 2024 as a scientist. My current work focuses on utilizing graph embedding and machine learning techniques for knowledge graphs.


Projects: COMMITMENT, eBRAIN-Health

Master's and PhD students

 

Vinay Srinivas Bharadhwaj

I joined Fraunhofer in 2019 during my Master's program in the Life Science Informatics program at the University of Bonn as a student researcher. I finished my Master's thesis at SCAI during my time as a student researcher. I am currently working in the field of Knowledge Graphs (KG) and data augmentation using biological network-science.

 

Projects: CLEPP, COMMITMENT
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Deniz Er

 

I am currently studying Master's in Life Science Informatics at the University of Bonn and I joined Fraunhofer SCAI in March 2023 as a student research assistant. I started with working on building COVID-19 ontology and currently I am working on Knowledge Graph extraction from LLMs.

 

Umut Kazakoglu


I am currently studying for a Master's degree in Life Science Informatics at the University of Bonn. My research focuses on enhanced dataset search in the field of life science domain, while supporting the contextual relevance with the help of ontologies and knowledge graphs.

 

Yasamin Salimi

 

I joined Fraunhofer SCAI as a student research assistant in August 2019. I successfully finished my master’s thesis on “Comparison of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Patterns Across Multiple Cohort Studies.” I started my PhD studies in November 2020 with a focus in evaluating the Data Landscape in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Projects: ADataViewer

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Astghik Sargsyan

 

I am currently studying for a Master’s degree in Life Science Informatics at the University of Bonn. I joined Fraunhofer SCAI as a HiWi student in 2019. Currently I am involved in developing semantic technologies - Ontologies and Terminologies.

 

Projects: COMMITMENT, COPERIMOplus

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Sachin Viswanathan Santhosh Kumar

I am a Master's student in Life Science Informatics at the University of Bonn, and I joined Fraunhofer SCAI as a HiWi in June 2024. I began by working on managing GOCAM and BEL grammar, and my current research focuses on building a reliable semantic framework for ontologies in psychiatric disorders.

 

Yihao Wang

 

I am currently studying for a Master's degree in computer science at the University of Bonn. I am working on Multi-Ontology embedding and its further application in various text mining and language understanding tasks.