Professor Shabbir Syed-Abdul is a strong health informatics research professional with expertise in Artificial Intelligence, wearable devices, and the internet of things in healthcare. His research focuses on the long-term care of older adults and early prediction and management of chronic diseases such as cancer, chronic kidney disease, etc.
He is a Professor at the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, a leading researcher and a principal investigator at the International Center for Health Information Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. He has been an educator for MOOCs on FutureLearn since 2015.
Prof. Shabbir has an excellent track record of accomplishing projects and publishing over 120 articles in the SCI prestigious journals including The Lancet, BMJ, JAMIA, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Burns, PlosOne and Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. He is a regular invited speaker on a broad range of topics on Clinical decision support systems, Innovation, Digital Health, AI & Machine Learning in Health. He chairs and moderates and serves on program committees at numerous national and international conferences. He is also a consultant for the Health IT industry, and guest editor of 3 SCI journals.