Distinguished Professor Karin Verspoor is Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT.  Verspoor is passionate about using artificial intelligence to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support from data. Her work has a specific emphasis on the use of natural language processing to transform unstructured data in biomedicine into actionable information. She has made significant contributions through her interdisciplinary work in digital health, bioinformatics, and cheminformatics.

For over two decades, Verspoor has been applying her AI skills in the biomedical domain, receiving numerous awards and accolades during this time. Most recently, she was selected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and for the past few years  she has consistently been recognised as a top 2% scientist by Elsevier/Stanford. Verspoor is also a champion of diversity and inclusion, participating in strategic initiatives at RMIT to support women and girls in technology.