Hi there!
I am a PhD researcher at the Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia.
My research interests focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, biomedical informatics, and computational approaches for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.
I am the Founder and Research Lead of CaresAI, a research group focused on AI-driven healthcare innovation.
News
- 2024.08: GMI Certified Mentor Global Mentor Initiative 2025 - 2026
- 2024.08: Data Science Mentor for Kaggle fellowship 2024 KaggleX BIPOC Cohort 4 on "Building a chatbot by fine-tuning Google's Gemma LLM using custom conversation-style datasets."
- 2024.06: One paper published by ACL CaresAI at SemEval-2024 Task 2: Improving Natural Language Inference in Clinical Trial Data using Model Ensemble and Data Explanation.
- 2024.04: One paper published by Cancer Reports, Wiley Network‐based identification of key proteins and repositioning of drugs for non‐small cell lung cancer.
- 2023.08: Elected as one of 4 Global Scholars Alumni Committee Co-chairs GSAC-AACR 2023-2025
- 2023.07: Data Science Mentor for Kaggle fellowship 2023 KaggleX BIPOC Cohort 3
- 2023.07: One paper published by IJML JoyBot: RASA-based Chatbot to boost mental health of Australians
- 2023.06: Medical AI Intern @Telix Pharmaceuticals Clinical data anonymization
- 2023.05: Young Tassie Scientists(YTS)youngtassiescientists
- 2023.05: Speaker @Kaggle-ICLR 2023 Opinion Mining: Did Twitter act as a Medium for determining Africa's most populous president?
- 2023.03: One paper accepted by IJ-ICT Artificial Intelligence based prediction on lung cancer risk factors using deep learning
- 2023.03: One paper accepted by IEEE BerTopic Modelling with P53 in Ovarian cancer
- 2022.10: AI Tutor, OMDENA Learning Neural network with Deep learning applications
- 2022.08: Project Manager, DrCADx-OMDENA AI for cervical cancer screening
- 2022.05: Lead Machine Learning Engineer, RADMOLAI-OMDENA Using AI to indicate the likelihood and risk of developing colorectal cancer
- 2022.05: Thrilled to start my cancer research group using AI and Bioinformatics pathway CaresAI
- 2022.05: One paper accepted by WiML-NEURIPLS 2022 (Oral)
- 2022.04: One Paper accepted by AACR 2022 Scalable Colorectal Cancer (CRC) diagnosis Model with arterial and unenhanced phases of KRAS mutational status using Apache Spark is awarded a GSITA-AACR Award at AACR 2022
- 2022.03: One paper accepted by WiML-ICML 2022Cancer health disparity using BERTopic and Pycaret evaluation
Publications
CaresAI at SMM4H-HeaRD 2026: Predicting TNM Staging
Abubakar J.I., Craine J., Igwezeke F., Mary Adewunmi
ACL Proceedings, July 2026
Advancing Cancer Research in Resource-Limited Settings: Perspectives from Emerging Voices Across Continents. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention
Sanchis P, Aguilar-Cortes DC, Kannan B, Malik R, Merlo J, Sabater A, Abu Alragheb B, Blessing OO, Ferro Leal L, Fusco M, Guevara-Nieto HM, Kaur D, Khaja UM, Manselle-Cocco MN, Pascon Filho A, Pepra-Ameyaw P, Rajendran S, Seniuk R, Takundwa M, Yedier-Bayram O, Abushukair HM, Mary Adewunmi, Akinwale M.
July 2026
CaresAI at CT-DEB'26: Detecting Dosing Errors in Clinical Trials Using Domain-Specific Transformer Embeddings and Classification Models
Leon Hamnett, Igwezeke F., Abubakar J.I., Mary Adewunmi
June 2026
CaresAI at BioCreative IX Track 1: Large Language Models for Biomedical Question Answering
Reem Abdel Abdel-Salam, Mary Adewunmi, Abayomi M.A.
August 2025
CaresAI at SemEval-2024 Task 2: Improving Natural Language Inference in Clinical Trial Data Using Model Ensemble and Data Explanation
Reem Abdel Abdel-SalamMary Adewunmi, Akinwale M.
June 2024
A Network-Based Identification of Key Proteins and Repositioning of Drugs for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Adeyemo O.M., Ashimiyu-Abdusalam Z., Mary Adewunmi, Ayano T.A., Sohaib M., Abdel-Salam R.
Cancer Reports, April 2024
CaresAI at SemEval-2024 Task 2: Improving Natural Language Inference in Clinical Trial Data Using Model Ensemble and Data Explanation
Abdel-Salam R., Mary Adewunmi, Akinwale M.
ACL SemEval, June 2024
Heterogeneous Analysis of KeyBERT, BERTopic, PyCaret and LDA Methods: A P53 Ovarian Cancer Use Case
Richard O. Oveh, Mary Adewunmi, Solomon A.O., Christopher K.Y., Ezeobi P.N.
Intelligence-Based Medicine, 2024
Improved Breast Cancer Diagnosis through Transfer Learning on Hematoxylin and Eosin-Stained Histology Images
Leon Hamnett, Mary Adewunmi, Modinat Abayomi, Kayode Raheem, and Fahad Ahmed
Preprint, December 2023
JoyBot: RASA-based Chatbot to Boost Mental Health of Australians
Mary Adewunmi, Adish Ashraff, Tanya Dixit, Nikhil Shrestha, Veronica Gail Medrano, Bhushan Chougule, Ahmed Fahim, Navaneeth Tirupath, and Sudha Sushma
IJML, July 2023
Artificial Intelligence Based Prediction on Lung Cancer Risk Factors Using Deep Learning
Muhammad Sohaib, Mary Adewunmi
August 2023
Enhancing Transformer-Based Segmentation for Breast Cancer Diagnosis using Auto-Augmentation and Search Optimisation Techniques
Leon Hamnett, Mary Adewunmi, Modinat Abayomi, Kayode Raheem, and Fahad Ahmed
ML4H Conference, November 2023
BERTopic Modelling with P53 in Ovarian Cancer
R.O. Oveh, Mary Adewunmi, G.O. Aziken
IEEE Xplore 2022
Education
- Nov 2022 - July 2024, Graduate Certificate in Research, College Of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania (UTAS), Hobart, Australia.
- Sept. 2016 - May. 2019, Master Degree, Computer Science, Lagos State University(LASU), Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria.
- Sept. 2004 - Jun. 2008, Bachelor Degree, Computer Science, BOWEN University, Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria.
Tutoring
- May 2023 Young Tassie Scientist Tutor
- Aug 2023 LLM Bootcamp - GPT-3
- Aug 2023 LLM Bootcamp - T5
- Oct 2022 Machine/Deep learning for health Applications
- Aug 2022 Machine/Deep Learning for Cancer diagnosis[Video]
- Sep 2011 - Sep 2022 PGD Tutoring @ NACETEM
Invited Talks
- July 2025, Will AI solve cancer
- July 2023, Speaker @One-Africa 2023 AI and Me
- May 2023, Speaker @Kaggle-ICLR 2023 Opinion Mining: Did Twitter act as a Medium for determining Africa's most populous president?
- Mar 2023, Moderator of "Beyond Multicultural Integration: Exploring the Vision and Story of Excellence."
- Dec 2022, Inspiring Women in Data and AI: AI in Healthcare
Awards
- 2025, Technology Leader of the Year Award
- 2024, People's Choice Award- Hackathon on Maximising Research Outcomes of Women in STEM, APR, Melbourne, AU.
- 2024-2026, Charles Darwin University Scholarship – Tuition fees offset/Stipend.
- 2024-2026, Menzies School of Health Research Top-up Scholarship.
- 2023, 6-months Top-up Scholarship with Telix|APR-AMSI|UTAS.
- 2023, Travel Grant, Kaggle-ICLR 2023.
- 2023, Complimentary Conference registration Grant, ICLR 2023.
- 2023, Accomodation Grant, Tinypaper-ICLR 2023.
- 2022, Tasmania Government PhD Scholarship on Colon Cancer with AI; CHM,School of Medicine, UTAS.
- 2022, Tasmania Research PhD Stipend on Colon Cancer with AI.
- 2022, WiML-NeurIPS Travel + Registration Grant for a paper presentation on Heterogenous Analysis of KeyBERT, BERTopic, PyCaret, and LDAs methods: P53 in Ovarian Cancer Use Case.
- 2022, Un workshop WIML-ICML 2022 Travel + Registration Grant WiML- ICML for a paper presentation on Cancer Health Disparities drivers with BERTopic modelling and PyCaret Evaluation Cancer Use Case.
- 2022, Graduate Scholar In Training Award (GSITA-AACR) on Scalable Colorectal Cancer (CRC) diagnosis Model with arterial and unenhanced phases of KRAS mutational status using Apache Spark.
- 2021, Kaggle BIPOC Award.
- 2021, Outstanding performance at the Data Stewardship on Open Science Training by ISTIC-UNESCO 2021.
Professional Activities
- Journal Reviewer: ETRI 2022, SPRINGER 2023.
- Volunteer: ICML2022, WiML-NEURIPLS 2022, ICLR2023.
Last updated on August 27, 2026.