Researcher in Biomedical NLP

London, UK

v.smith.20@ucl.ac.uk

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Bio

Hello and welcome to my website! Thank you for visiting! I am a PhD student (submitted, 2025) on the CDT for AI Enabled Healthcare Systems at UCL. My current research is focused on extracting Pharmacokinetic Data from Scientific Literature to improve Pharmacokinetic predictions. This project has developed my skill set in Natural Language Processing (including LLMs), Machine Learning and Pharmacometrics

I am passionate about health and how machine learning and data science can be exploited to improve health outcomes. I am also committed to the safe and ethical use of machine learning. My career aspiration is to make an impact in health by building robust computational models which allow better decisions to be made, across drug development, clinical trials and in the clinic, to benefit both patients and healthcare professionals.

About Me!

In my spare time I enjoy getting active, especially in the great outdoors (you may find me cycling, bouldering, running, hiking, kickboxing or yoga-ing!), I'm a foody (you may find me trying new cuisines, cooking up a storm for friends and family, or making artisan chocolates), I love to travel (find me bicycle touring across europe) and I enjoy relaxing with a good book (as said by C.S. Lewis - “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”)!

Books I Like

Non-Fiction

• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cath O'Neil
• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a world designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
• The Diet Myth: The Real Science behind what we Eat, by Tim Spector
• She Has Her Mothers Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, by Carl Zimmer
• Breathe: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor

Fiction

• Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
• The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis De Bernieres
• The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
• Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead