Dr Paul Kennedy

Director of Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory

Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory, University of Technology, Sydney

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Background

Paul Kennedy is the Director of the Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory. His research interests lie in kernel methods to help understanding of  data, particularly biomedical data and text. Dr. Kennedy is coinitiator of a research collaboration (> 5 years) with the Children's Hospital at Westmead, the University of Western Sydney and Queen's University, Canada. The larger project involves developing a point-of-care clinical software tool to better diagnose and treat childhood leukaemia sufferers. The tool uses case-based reasoning approaches to help predict how paediatric cancer sufferers will react to treatment by comparing them to previous patients on the basis of their systems biology.