Professor Honghan Wu
- Professor of Health Informatics and AI (Public Health)
Biography
I am a Professor of Health Informatics and AI at the School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow and an honorary professor at Hong Kong University. Before my current position, I was an associate professor at the Institute of Health Informatics (2020 May - 2024 April), UCL. I current hold an honorary associate professor position at UCL, continuing my research projects and supervisions. I am a former (2020-2023) Turing Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute and a Rutherford Fellow (2018-2022) of the Health Data Research UK. I got my BEng and PhD degrees from Southeast University, China. I worked in the industry for about six years primarily as a software developer before my PhD study.
My research lab website is at https://knowlab.github.io/, I also co-lead the Edinburgh Clinical Natural Language Processing group: https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/clinical-natural-language-processing and co-organise the Turing Health Equity group: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/health-equity.
Research interests
Machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge graph and their applications in medicine. Details of my research and team updates can be found at https://knowlab.github.io/.
Publications
Prior publications
ORCiD
Ibrahim, Z., Wu, H., Wiratunga, N., (2023) Preface: The 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data (KDH) CEUR Workshop Proceedings (eid: 2-s2.0-85173525601)(issn: 16130073); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Thygesen JH, Tomlinson C, Hollings S, Mizani M, Handy A, Akbari A, Banerjee A, Cooper J, Lai A, Li K, Mateen B, Sattar N, Sofat R, Torralbo A, Wu H, Denaxas S, (2021) Understanding COVID-19 trajectories from a nationwide linked electronic health record cohort of 56 million people: phenotypes, severity, waves & vaccination (ppr: PPR417361)(doi: 10.1101/2021.11.08.21265312); source: Europe PubMed Central
Hang Dong, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, William Whiteley, Honghan Wu, (2021) Explainable automated coding of clinical notes using hierarchical label-wise attention networks and label embedding initialisation Journal of Biomedical Informatics (pmid: 33711543)(doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2021.103728)(eid: 2-s2.0-85104899646)(issn: 15320464)(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.15728)(eid: 2-s2.0-85181603157)(issn: 23318422); source: Honghan Wu
Wood A, Denholm R, Hollings S, Cooper J, Ip S, Walker V, Denaxas S, Akbari A, Banerjee A, Whiteley W, Lai A, Sterne J, Sudlow C, CVD-COVID-UK consortium, (2021) Linked electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort of more than 54 million people in England: data resource. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) (pmid: 33827854)(pmc: PMC8413899)(doi: 10.1136/bmj.n826); source: Europe PubMed Central
Whitfield E, Coffey C, Zhang H, Shi T, Wu X, Li Q, Wu H, (2021) Axes of Prognosis: Identifying Subtypes of COVID-19 Outcomes (ppr: PPR302376)(doi: 10.1101/2021.03.16.21253371); source: Europe PubMed Central
Wu H, Zhang H, Karwath A, Ibrahim Z, Shi T, Zhang X, Wang K, Sun J, Dhaliwal K, Bean D, Cardoso VR, Li K, Teo JT, Banerjee A, Gao-Smith F, Guthrie B, (2021) Ensemble learning for poor prognosis predictions: A case study on SARS-CoV-2. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (pmid: 33185672)(pmc: PMC7717299)(doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa295); source: Europe PubMed Central
Whitfield E, Coffey C, Zhang H, Shi T, Wu X, Li Q, Wu H, (2021) Axes of Prognosis: Identifying Subtypes of COVID-19 Outcomes. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium (pmid: 35308999)(pmc: PMC8861682); source: Europe PubMed Central
Yuan Y, Sun C, Tang X, Cheng C, Mombaerts L, Wang M, Hu T, Sun C, Guo Y, Li X, Xu H, Ren T, Xiao Y, Xiao Y, Zhu H, Wu H, Li K, Chen C, Liu Y, Yan L, (2020) Development and Validation of a Prognostic Risk Score System for COVID-19 Inpatients: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study in China. Engineering (Beijing, China) (pmid: 33282444)(pmc: PMC7695569)(doi: 10.1016/j.eng.2020.10.013); source: Europe PubMed Central
Kuang X, Cheung JP, Wu H, Dokos S, Zhang T, (2020) MRI-SegFlow: a novel unsupervised deep learning pipeline enabling accurate vertebral segmentation of MRI images. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference (pmid: 33018308)(doi: 10.1109/embc44109.2020.9175987); source: Europe PubMed Central
Banerjee A, Chen S, Pasea L, Lai A, Katsoulis M, Denaxas S, Nafilyan V, Williams B, Wong WK, Bakhai A, Khunti K, Pillay D, Noursadeghi M, Wu H, Hemingway H, (2020) Excess deaths in people with cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. (other-id: PPR174275)(doi: 10.1101/2020.06.10.20127175); source: Europe PubMed Central
Wu H, Wang M, Zeng Q, Chen W, Nind T, Jefferson E, Bennie M, Black C, Pan JZ, Sudlow C, Robertson D, (2020) Knowledge Driven Phenotyping. Studies in health technology and informatics (pmid: 32570642)(doi: 10.3233/shti200425); source: Europe PubMed Central
(2020) Risk prediction for poor outcome and death in hospital in-patients with COVID-19: derivation in Wuhan, China and external validation in London, UK medrxiv (doi: 10.1101/2020.04.28.20082222)(ppr: PPR342175)(doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3590468); source: Honghan Wu
Carr E, Bendayan R, Bean D, Stammers M, Wang W, Zhang H, Searle T, Searle T, Kraljevic Z, Shek A, Phan HTT, Muruet W, Shinton AJ, Shi T, Zhang X, Dobson R, (2020) Evaluation and Improvement of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) for COVID-19: a multi-hospital study (other-id: PPR156364)(doi: 10.1101/2020.04.24.20078006); source: Europe PubMed Central
Ibrahim ZM, Wu H, Hamoud A, Stappen L, Dobson RJB, Agarossi A, (2020) On classifying sepsis heterogeneity in the ICU: insight using machine learning. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA (pmid: 31951005)(pmc: PMC7025363)(doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocz211); source: Europe PubMed Central
Ibrahim, Z.M., Bean, D., Searle, T., Qian, L., Wu, H., Shek, A., Kraljevic, Z., Galloway, J., Norton, S., Teo, J.T., Dobson, R.J.B., (2020) A knowledge distillation ensemble framework for predicting short and long-term hospitalisation outcomes from electronic health records data arXiv (doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.09361)(eid: 2-s2.0-85170600593)(issn: 23318422); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Bendayan, R., Wu, H., Kraljevic, Z., Stewart, R., Searle, T., Chaturvedi, J., Das-Munshi, J., Ibrahim, Z., Mascio, A., Roberts, A., Bean, D., Dobson, R., (2020) Identifying physical health comorbidities in a cohort of individuals with severe mental illness: An application of SemEHR arXiv (doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.08901)(eid: 2-s2.0-85171036145)(issn: 23318422); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Ibrahim, Z., Wu, H., Dobson, R., (2020) Modeling rare interactions in time series data through qualitative change: application to outcome prediction in intensive care units arXiv (doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.01431)(eid: 2-s2.0-85171028712)(issn: 23318422); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Wu H, Hodgson K, Dyson S, Morley KI, Ibrahim ZM, Iqbal E, Stewart R, Dobson RJ, Sudlow C, (2019) Efficient Reuse of Natural Language Processing Models for Phenotype-Mention Identification in Free-text Electronic Medical Records: A Phenotype Embedding Approach. JMIR medical informatics (pmid: 31845899)(pmc: PMC6938594)(doi: 10.2196/14782); source: Europe PubMed Central
Kugathasan P, Wu H, Gaughran F, Nielsen RE, Pritchard M, Dobson R, Stewart R, Stubbs B, (2019) Association of physical health multimorbidity with mortality in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Using a novel semantic search system that captures physical diseases in electronic patient records. Schizophrenia research (pmid: 31787481)(doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.10.061); source: Europe PubMed Central
Bean DM, Teo J, Wu H, Oliveira R, Patel R, Bendayan R, Shah AM, Dobson RJB, Scott PA, (2019) Semantic computational analysis of anticoagulation use in atrial fibrillation from real world data. PloS one (pmid: 31765395)(pmc: PMC6876873)(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225625); source: Europe PubMed Central
Honghan Wu, Karen Hodgson, Sue Dyson, Katherine I Morley, Zina M Ibrahim, Ehtesham Iqbal, Robert Stewart, Richard JB Dobson, Cathie Sudlow, (2019) Efficient Reuse of Natural Language Processing Models for Phenotype-Mention Identification in Free-text Electronic Medical Records: A Phenotype Embedding Approach (Preprint) (doi: 10.2196/preprints.14782); source: Crossref
(2019) Named Entity Recognition for Electronic Health Records: A Comparison of Rule-based and Machine Learning Approaches (arxiv: arXiv:1903.03985v2)(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.03985)(eid: 2-s2.0-85170726104)(issn: 23318422); source: Honghan Wu
Wu, H., Hodgson, K., Dyson, S., Morley, K.I., Ibrahim, Z.M., Iqbal, E., Stewart, R., Dobson, R.J.B., Sudlow, C., (2019) Efficiently Reusing Natural Language Processing Models for Phenotype-Mention Identification in Free-text Electronic Medical Records: Methodology Study arXiv (doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.03995)(eid: 2-s2.0-85169963298)(issn: 23318422); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Honghan Wu, Giulia Toti, Katherine I Morley, Zina M Ibrahim, Amos Folarin, Richard Jackson, Ismail Kartoglu, Asha Agrawal, Clive Stringer, Darren Gale, Genevieve Gorrell, Angus Roberts, Matthew Broadbent, Robert Stewart, Richard JB Dobson, (2018) SemEHR: A general-purpose semantic search system to surface semantic data from clinical notes for tailored care, trial recruitment, and clinical research* Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocx160)(issn: 1067-5027); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Bean, D.M., Wu, H., Iqbal, E., Dzahini, O., Ibrahim, Z.M., Broadbent, M., Stewart, R., Dobson, R.J.B., (2018) Erratum: Author Correction: Knowledge graph prediction of unknown adverse drug reactions and validation in electronic health records (Scientific reports (2017) 7 1 (16416)) Scientific reports (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22521-4)(eid: 2-s2.0-85070467011)(issn: 20452322); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Bach, K., Bunescu, R., Farri, O., Guo, A., Hasan, S., Ibrahim, Z., Marling, C., Raffa, J., Rubin, J., Wu, H., (2018) Preface: The 3rd international workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data (KDH) CEUR Workshop Proceedings (eid: 2-s2.0-85051034726)(issn: 16130073); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Wu H, Toti G, Morley KI, Ibrahim ZM, Folarin A, Jackson R, Kartoglu I, Agrawal A, Stringer C, Gale D, Gorrell G, Roberts A, Broadbent M, Stewart R, Dobson RJ, (2017) SemEHR: A General-purpose Semantic Search System to Surface Semantic Data from Clinical Notes for Tailored Care, Trial Recruitment and Clinical Research (other-id: PPR16181)(doi: 10.1101/235622); source: Europe PubMed Central
Ehtesham Iqbal, Robbie Mallah, Daniel Rhodes, Honghan Wu, Alvin Romero, Nynn Chang, Olubanke Dzahini, Chandra Pandey, Matthew Broadbent, Robert Stewart, Richard J. B. Dobson, Zina M. Ibrahim, Tudor Groza, (2017) ADEPt, a semantically-enriched pipeline for extracting adverse drug events from free-text electronic health records PLOS ONE (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187121)(issn: 1932-6203); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Daniel M. Bean, Honghan Wu, Olubanke Dzahini, Matthew Broadbent, Robert Stewart, Richard J. B. Dobson, (2017) Knowledge graph prediction of unknown adverse drug reactions and validation in electronic health records Scientific Reports (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16674-x)(issn: 2045-2322); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Honghan Wu, Giulia Toti, Katherine I Morley, Zina Ibrahim, Amos Folarin, Ismail Kartoglu, Richard Jackson, Asha Agrawal, Clive Stringer, Darren Gale, Genevieve M Gorrell, Angus Roberts, Matthew Broadbent, Robert Stewart, Richard J B Dobson, (2017) SemEHR: surfacing semantic data from clinical notes in electronic health records for tailored care, trial recruitment, and clinical research The Lancet (doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)33032-5)(issn: 0140-6736); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Richard Jackson, Ismail Emre Kartoglu, Asha Agrawal, Kenneth Lui, Honghan Wu, Tudor Groza, Angus Roberts, Genevieve Gorrell, Xingyi Song, Damian Lewsley, Doug Northwood, Amos Folarin, Clive Stringer, Robert Stewart, Richard Dobson, (2017) CogStack - Experiences Of Deploying Integrated Information Retrieval And Extraction Services In A Large National Health Service Foundation Trust Hospital (doi: 10.1101/123299); source: Crossref Metadata Search
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Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Jeff Z. Pan, Guido Vetere, Honghan Wu, (2017) Enterprise Knowledge Graph: An Introduction Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45654-6_1); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Jeff Z. Pan, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Guido Vetere, Honghan Wu, Yuting Zhao, Marco Monti, (2017) Enterprise Knowledge Graph: Looking into the Future Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45654-6_9); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Jeff Z. Pan, Guido Vetere, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Honghan Wu, (2017) Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45654-6); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Chandra Pandey, Zina Ibrahim, Honghan Wu, Ehtesham Iqbal, Richard Dobson, (2017) Improving RNN with Attention and Embedding for Adverse Drug Reactions Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Digital Health - DH '17 (doi: 10.1145/3079452.3079501); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Ronald Denaux, Yuan Ren, Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Panos Alexopoulos, Alessandro Faraotti, Honghan Wu, (2017) Knowledge Architecture for Organisations Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45654-6_3); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Nuria Garcia-Santa, Yuan Ren, Alessandro Faraotti, Honghan Wu, Yuting Zhao, Guido Vetere, Jeff Z. Pan, (2017) Knowledge Graph Foundations Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45654-6_2); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Ibrahim, Z., Wu, H., Bach, K., Dobson, R., Denaxas, S., Wiratunga, N., Massie, S., Sani, S., (2017) Preface: The 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Data (KDH) CEUR Workshop Proceedings (eid: 2-s2.0-85029108383)(issn: 16130073); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Alessandro Moschitti, Kateryna Tymoshenko, Panos Alexopoulos, Andrew Walker, Massimo Nicosia, Guido Vetere, Alessandro Faraotti, Marco Monti, Jeff Z. Pan, Honghan Wu, Yuting Zhao, (2017) Question Answering and Knowledge Graphs Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45654-6_7); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Wang, H., Sun, Q., Oellrich, A., Wu, H., Dobson, R., (2017) The psycho-ENV corpus: Research articles annotated for knowledge discovery on correlating mental diseases and environmental factors CEUR Workshop Proceedings (eid: 2-s2.0-85029066847)(issn: 16130073); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Honghan Wu, Ronald Denaux, Panos Alexopoulos, Yuan Ren, Jeff Z. Pan, (2017) Understanding Knowledge Graphs Exploiting Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs in Large Organisations (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45654-6_6); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Zina M. Ibrahim, Honghan Wu, Robbie Mallah, Richard J. B. Dobson, (2016) Category-Driven Association Rule Mining Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXXIII (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47175-4_2); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Honghan Wu, Zina M. Ibrahim, Ehtesham Iqbal, Richard J. B. Dobson, (2016) Encoding Medication Episodes for Adverse Drug Event Prediction Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXXIII (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47175-4_18); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Yuting Zhao, Guido Vetere, Jeff Z. Pan, Alessandro Faraotti, Marco Monti, Honghan Wu, (2016) Meta-Level Properties for Reasoning on Dynamic Data Semantic Technology (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31676-5_19); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Jeff Z. Pan, José Manuel Gómez Pérez, Yuan Ren, Honghan Wu, Haofen Wang, Man Zhu, (2015) Graph Pattern Based RDF Data Compression Semantic Technology (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15615-6_18); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Chen, J., Chen, H., Zheng, G., Pan, J.Z., Wu, H., Zhang, N., (2014) Big smog meets web science: Smog disaster analysis based on social media and device data on the web WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web (doi: 10.1145/2567948.2576941)(eid: 2-s2.0-84990997615); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Honghan Wu, Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Jeff Z. Pan, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, (2014) Exploiting Semantic Web Datasets: A Graph Pattern Based Approach The Semantic Web and Web Science (doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-45495-4_15); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Wu, H., Villazon-Terrazas, B., Pan, J.Z., Gomez-Perez, J.M., (2014) How redundant is it?-An empirical analysis on linked datasets CEUR Workshop Proceedings (eid: 2-s2.0-84908691394); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Jeff Z. Pan, Yuan Ren, Honghan Wu, Man Zhu, (2013) Query generation for semantic datasets Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Knowledge capture - K-CAP '13 (doi: 10.1145/2479832.2479859); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Ago Luberg, Michael Granitzer, Honghan Wu, Priit Järv, Tanel Tammet, (2012) Information retrieval and deduplication for tourism recommender sightsplanner Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics - WIMS '12 (doi: 10.1145/2254129.2254191); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Honghan Wu, Ago Luberg, Tanel Tammet, (2012) Ranking domain objects bywisdom of web pages Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics - WIMS '12 (doi: 10.1145/2254129.2254210); source: Crossref Metadata Search
Wu, H., Qu, Y., Li, H., (2010) Searching semantic web documents based on RDF sentences Jisuanji Yanjiu yu Fazhan/Computer Research and Development (eid: 2-s2.0-77950556598); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Wu, H., Qu, Y., (2009) Understanding semantic web entity: Concept space based summarization method Dongnan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of Southeast University (Natural Science Edition) (doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-0505.2009.04.014)(eid: 2-s2.0-69249225557); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Cheng, G., Wu, H., Ge, W., Qu, Y., (2008) Searching Semantic Web objects based on class hierarchies CEUR Workshop Proceedings (eid: 2-s2.0-84885222384); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Hu, W., Zhao, Y., Li, D., Cheng, G., Wu, H., Qu, Y., (2007) Falcon-AO: Results for OAEI 2007 CEUR Workshop Proceedings (eid: 2-s2.0-84868527756); source: Scopus - Elsevier
Supervision
- Xu, Chao
Developing a risk stratification tool to detect ADHD in children and adolescents
Professional activities & recognition
Research fellowships
- 2018 - 2022: Health Data Research UK
Editorial boards
- 2021: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- 2022: BMC Digital Health
Professional & learned societies
- 2020 - 2023: Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute