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About
Hi! My name is Artem, I'm currently a PhD student at Heidelberg University, working on the intersection of AI and computational biology under the supervision of Moritz Gerstung. My current work is focused on using large-scale medical datasets to establish transformer-based models of disease risk prediction based on medical history. Previously I was working on image-based models for subtyping tumours of the central nervous system and designing Bayesian generative models for spatial transcriptomics data. In the previous life I was a chemist.
More broadly, I'm interested in the common points between AI and biology - both ways - developing biology-inspired AI and using AI to build data-driven simulations of biological processes. I'm fascinated by complex systems and their emergent properties, such as evolution, repair and self-organization.
When not doing research, I enjoy astrophotography, scuba diving, reading science fiction, japanese 🐾 nyaa~! ✨ animation 🐾 nyaa~! ✨ .
Recent Work
Generative Transformers for Disease History
European Bioinformatics Institute • 2024 - present
Designing custom transformer models that estimate future disease risk based on medical history.
Brain Tumour Classification
German Cancer Research Center • 2022 - present
Developing SOTA models for computational histopathology of brain tumours in a collaboration across seven countries, targeting direct clinical application.