James Lindsay from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on Knowledge Systems and Large Language Models

James Lindsay, Associate Director and Chief Software Architect within the Knowledge Systems Group at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute speaks with CPACE Podcast host Jordan Gass-Pooré about the role knowledge systems play in enabling computational medicine and research today. Jordan and James discuss his team’s work, the architecture, data and databases behind modern knowledge systems and about applications of AI and smaller machine learning models. James offers valuable insight to students, academic institutions and private sector companies on knowledge systems and on experimenting with emerging AI applications - encouraging, students, researchers and clinicians alike to get involved from an early stage in testing new tools and applicational ideas. Prior to joining Dana-Farber, James was a Co-founder of Smpl Bio, a bioinformatics company which builds web based tools that simplify complex statistical and analytical tasks for bench biologists. He brings expertise in software architecture, bioinformatics, genomics and machine learning. Within the Knowledge Systems Group, James leads several initiatives, including translating molecular tissue imaging research into clinical tests, developing software systems for enterprise bioinformatics and the integration of machine learning to enhance research and clinical systems at Dana-Farber.