Background & Research Interests

I am a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of Melbourne's School of Computing & Information Systems and the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health.  My research interests are centred on the application of computational methods — particularly natural language processing — to public health research questions, with much of my research output focused on the broad areas of communicable diseases, mental health, and substance use.  In addition to my computational work, I also publish on ethical and socio-technical issues associated with the development of digital health technologies.

My research has been funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine and National Institute on Drug Abuse).

Prior to joining the University of Melbourne in 2021, I held research positions at the University of Pittsburgh, Mayo Clinic, the University of California San Diego, and the University of Utah.

News

Sep 2024

May 2024

  • Welcome to new PhD students Liuliu Chen, Abir Naskar, and Jemima Kang
  • Awarded grant to support joint University of Melbourne/Hokkaido University workshop on Digital Health & Medical AI
  • New publication with masters student Damian Curran on Similarity ranking of case law using propositions as features at the 16th Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence International Symposia in Hamamatsu, Shizuouka (Japan).  Damian's work was ranked 2nd (out of 24) for Task 1 of the 2024 Competition on Legal Information and Extraction/Entailment (COLIEE-2024)

Dec 2023

Jul 2023

Two papers at MedInfo 2023 in Sydney, both with collaborators at the University of Utah's Division of Epidemiology:

  • Development of a natural language processing system to identify clinical documentation of electronic cigarette use.  Alba, Gan, Hu, Zhu, Duvall, Conway.   Proceedings of MedInfo 2023: The 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
  • Automatic extraction of skin and soft tissue infection status from clinical notes. Rhoads, Christensen, Westerdahl, Stevens, Chapman, Conway. Proceedings of MedInfo 2023: The 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics

Jan 2023

  • New grant with Dr Annie Chen at the University of Washington:  Using narratives to identify stigma phenotypes - a socio-ecological approach [National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse - R21DA056684]

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Mike Conway

Mike Conway
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mike.conway@unimelb.edu.au

Senior Lecturer in Digital Health
School of Computing & Information Systems
University of Melbourne
700 Swanston Street
Carlton VIC 3053
Australia