The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Shang-Ming's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Shang-Ming
Welcome Prospective PhD StudentsShangming is interested in supervising strong potential UK and international PhD students from allied health professionals or computing science backgrounds. The areas of PhD studies include health data science, health and biomedical informatics, artificial intelligience (AI) for healthcare and medicine, quantitative data analysis and/or evaluation of e-health technologies, such as
- AI in health and care;
- explainable machine learning (XAI) in healthcare;
- ethical AI in healthcare;
- electronic health records analytics;
- natural language processing /text mining in healthcare;
- e-health technology transformation;
- early detection and diagnosis;
- multimorbidity and polypharmacy;
- disease phenotyping;
- patient safety;
- etc.
About
Currently, Shangming is the Director of NHS Kernow Datalab with the Centre for Health Technologyat the Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences. He is also an affiliated investigatorwith the Health Data Research UK(HDR UK). His research was funded by HDRUK, MRC, EPSRC, HCRW, Charities, and international collaborations.
Before joining the University of Plymouth, Shangming worked with the Scottish Digital Health and Care Institute and University of Strathclyde, Swansea University, De Montford University, University of Essex, and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
His primary scholarly interests are AI in health and biomedical informatics, health data science, biomedical statistics and information aggregation / integration via type-1 OWA operators and type-2 OWA operators. In implementation science, he is particularly interested in (big) data analytics and AI with electronic health data for personalised medicine, disease phenotyping, polypharmacy, multimorbidity, risk factors identification etc; clinical decision supports driven by type-1 OWA operators and type-2 OWA operators; machine learning and data mining applied to epidemiology and public health. In developmental domains, he is particularly interested in developing and using explainable/transparent machine learning (i.e. XAI), type-1/ type-2 OWA operators and other AI technologies for electronic health records and –omics data to extract personally useful information, such as rules and patterns, concerning lifestyles and health conditions to promote healthier lifestyles and prevent disease.
The medical conditions to which he is particularly interested in applying AI and biomedical statistics techniques include, but are not limited to, the long-term health conditions (such as cancer, dementia, epilepsy, asthma, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, mental health conditions etc.)
He was the recipient of “ Best Paper Award ” sponsored by Springer Nature at the International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications; “ Best Poster Priz e” at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Annual Conference; IFIP-WG8.9 “ Outstanding Academic Service Award "; and “ Outstanding Reviewer Award " from Journal of Biomedical Informatics; Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport; Fuzzy Sets and Systems; IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics; Applied Soft Computing, Knowledge Based Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, respectively.
PhD Students
- Xu Wang (2022~2025) ‒ “Improving Medication Verification for Cancer Patients: An AI Led Population Health Study” (Director of Study) .
- Xiatian Fan (2023~2027) ‒ “Mining Routinely Collected Electronic Health Records to Identify Effective Dietetic Factors for Optimal Care in General Practice” (Director of Study) .
- Tristan Coombe (2023~2029) ‒ “On the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Education” (Director of Study) .
- Joan Jonathan Mnyambo (2023~2027) ‒“Prediction of Diagnostic Accuracy using Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics from HeroRats for Tuberculosis Detection” (Second Supervisor)
Supervised Research Degrees
- Bruce Burnett (PhD student) (2018~ 2022) (Funded by European Convergence programme-KESS (Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships)) - “Novel machine learning and text mining techniques for accurate disease phenotyping from SNOMED derived clinical texts” (First supervisor) (2018~ 2020)
- Jamie Duell (PhD student) (2019~ 2023) (Funded by EPSRC) - “Enhancing the Safe and Effective Use of Medicines in Hospitalized Patients: An AI Led Population Health Study” (First supervisor: 2019~ 2020)
- Elisabetta Longo (MRes student) (2019) (Funded by Gianesini Research Scholarship from UniCredit Foundation and University of Verona (Italy)) - “Patterns of polypharmacy in patients with dementia: A data-driven population-based study with primary care electronic health records” (“Best Dissertation Award in MSc Health Data Science”) (First supervisor)
- Zahra A. Almowil (PhD student) (2018~ 2022) (Funded by Kuwait Government) - “Development of electronic health data quality assessment framework: Towards consistent measurement of data quality within electronic health records” (First supervisor: 2018~ 2020)
- Gavin Tsang (PhD student) (2016~ 2020) (Funded by Faculty PhD studentship) - “Unravelling polypharmacy: Mining the complex interaction patterns between medications for enhanced patient care” (Second supervisor)
Teaching
Shangming’s teaching interests focused on the following areas:- Machine Learning for Healthcare
- Health Data Analytics
- Health Statitics
- Health Informatics & Digital Health
- Research Methods and Ethics
Advanced Concepts in Research: Methodology and Methods (APP758)
MSc Dissertation and Research Skills ( PROJ518)
