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Hajira Jabeen (PhD)

Senior Researcher
ORCID: 0000-0003-1476-2121

Biography

Hajira Jabeen is a senior researcher at Biomedical Informatics (BI-K), University Hospital Cologne, specializing in Artificial Intelligence for healthcare. She develops scalable AI models and algorithms to manage and analyze complex biomedical data, focusing on robust, reproducible, and FAIR‑compliant data practices. Her work uses Knowledge Graphs, Natural Language Processing, and FAIR principles to turn heterogeneous data into actionable insights for clinical research use.

Previously, she led the Big Data Analytics team at GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, where she worked on large‑scale data analytics and the development of Methods Hub, a community portal for open computational methods and workflows. She also worked as an team lead at Smart Data Analytics (SDA) on distributed semantic analytics, and served as a Data Science Expert at the University of Cologne within the CEPLAS cluster. Her research spans distributed analytics, data mining, semantic web technologies, and data FAIRification. She has contributed to multiple EU‑funded Horizon 2020 projects, building scalable data architectures across healthcare, maritime, energy, agriculture, social sciences, smart cities, and plant sciences.
Hajira is active in teaching, academic leadership, and fostering collaboration between academia and industry, with a focus on building sustainable data infrastructures and practical, transferable methods.

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Areas of Expertise

Current Teachings

LLM Journal Club

Doctoral Studies PostDoc WiSe & SoSe WiSe + SoSe

[Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird nur auf Englisch angeboten] Each week, we review and discuss a recent research paper on Large Language Models (LLMs), with a focus on practical applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM evaluation. The selected papers are drawn from top-tier conferences, including NAACL, ICML, and NeurIPS, ensuring exposure to cutting-edge developments in the field.

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AI in Medicine Series

Bachelor Studies Clinical Semesters Clinicians Doctoral Studies Master Studies PostDoc Preclinical Semesters WiSe + SoSe & SoSe WiSe

Artificial intelligence is already fundamentally changing medicine, but how do the underlying methods work, and what opportunities and challenges do they present? In this series of seminars, each session will cover a new, practical topic, including the basics of some AI methods, ethical challenges and possible solutions. The lectures, depending on the speaker, could be in German or English, are thematically linked but self-contained

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Medical AI - Introduction to Deep Learning in Medicine and its Applications

Clinical Semesters PostDoc Preclinical Semesters Doctoral Studies WiSe + SoSe & SoSe WiSe

[Der Kurs wird nur in Englisch abgehalten] This course provides a structured introduction to deep learning with a focus on medical applications. It begins by clarifying key concepts in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, emphasizing their relevance in modern medicine. Students will explore the basic structure of neural networks and understand how models are trained and evaluated. The course then introduces convolutional neural networks (CNNs)followed by an overview of transformers and foundational models used for analyzing clinical text, genomics, and multimodal data. Real-world case studies and clinical examples illustrate how deep learning is applied across radiology, pathology, dermatology, and beyond. The final sessions explore challenges in deploying AI in clinical settings, including issues of bias, explainability, and ethical use. Optional components may include hands-on demonstrations or guided review of influential research papers in the field.

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Publications from Hajira Jabeen

Serving Data Right: A Data Steward’s Guide to RDM Tool Evaluation

2026
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Research Data Management (RDM) is becoming an integral component of modern scientific practice covering all the steps of the research life cycle. As research institutions seek to put the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles of RDM into practice, an increasing number of open-source RDM platforms and tools have emerged to support data collection, sharing, and publication. Selecting a relevant tool based on project and domain requirements is becoming complex, primarily because the existing evaluation methods are disconnected from the practical needs, user roles, and resource constraints. This paper addresses this complexity by introducing a structured, reusable, adaptable, and user-centered framework that includes a guide for the systematic evaluation of open-source RDM repositories across several technical, usability, and operational dimensions. Building on persona focused stakeholder requirements, the framework enables researchers, data stewards, and institutions to identify and compare key selection criteria, aligning tool capabilities with project-specific and organizational needs. Supplementing this framework, this paper provides an evaluation guide that supports researchers and data stewards in making informed, transparent, and context-aware decisions for choosing a specific RDM tool that fits their needs.

Following open science, the complete evaluation guide is available for use at:

\href{https://github.com/FAIRSpace-Cologne/DataStewardGuides}{https://github.com/FAIRSpace-Cologne/DataStewardGuides}.