Towards a Grammar of Health: From Deep Phenotyping to Longitudinal Prediction

Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 2pm to 3pm

For our next talk, in the Digital Phenotyping seminar series, we will hear from Prof Alexandre Perera i Lluna, Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Coordinator of the b2slab – Bioinformatics and Biomedical Signals Laboratory on Wednesday 1 July, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, at BDI.

Title: TBC

Date: Wednesday 1 July
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Venue: BDI/OxPop, Seminar Room 0; followed by refreshments in the atrium
Abstract
This talk spans some of our activity from rare to prevalent diseases, bringing together collaborative intelligence and longitudinal prediction. We will show how the Share4Rare data science backend structures patient-reported data and uses graph-based “people-like-me” similarity to route questions and surface expertise in the context of deep phenotyping. We then will move to our work with routine health records, where deep sequence models learn representations to forecast risks, treatment changes, and HbA1c targets in type 2 diabetes, revealing meaningful patient trajectories, paving the path to our first Foundation Models in Health.
Bio
Alexandre Perera i Lluna is a physicist and electrical engineer with a PhD in Physics. He is a Full Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Coordinator of the b2slab – Bioinformatics and Biomedical Signals Laboratory (b2slab.upc.edu). His research focuses on applied data science methods for clinical data and bioinformatics. He currently serves as Director of the Catalan health-tech network XarTEC Salut (xartecsalut.com). He has also co-founded three spin-off companies.

Speaker(s): Prof Alexandre Perera i Lluna (UPC Barcelona and B2SLab)

Series: Digital Phenotyping

Venue: Big Data Institute - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 - Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom

Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)

Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari

Host: Prof Aiden Doherty, Dr Anya Topiwala