Mona Alshahrani defends her thesis proposal

Mona Alshahrani, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf, defended her thesis proposal on October 10, 2018.

Mona's presentation, "Machine Learning with Biological Knowledge Graphs: Application to Prediction of Disease and Drug Mechanisms", is about developing novel methods for feature learning for biological knowledge graphs.

Her thesis proposal was well received by committee members Professor Mikhail Moshkov, Professor Vladimir Bajic and Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf.