Dr Yanhua Xu

Dr Yanhua Xu

HDRC Data Scientist

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

I am a Data Scientist at the NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) in Bradford, hosted by the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. I design and implement machine learning solutions, applying large language models, to generate actionable insights in social and health domains.

I hold an MSc in AI from the University of Southampton, where I worked under Dr Nicolas Green, and a PhD in AI (Digital Health) from the University of Liverpool, supervised by Dr Dominik Wojtczak.

Previously, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Data Science at the University of Leeds, contributing to the ERC-funded Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Models (DUST) project under Professor Nick Malleson.

My research focuses on advancing AI for health, with broad interests spanning machine-learning and deep-learning applications across diverse health data domains.

(edited on May 2025)

Interests
  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Applied Natural Language Processing
  • Reinforcement Learning
Education
  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 2024

    University of Liverpool

  • MSc in Artificial Intelligence, 2019

    University of Southampton

Recent
Publications

You can also visit my Google Scholar profile. For the most recent versions of my work, please refer to my publications on arXiv or the attached PDF on this website.

Recent
Projects

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Insight Extraction from Social Work Reflection
Extracting key themes and emotional signals from adult social workers’ reflective comments to identify practice issues and prioritise support for those most in need.
Insight Extraction from Social Work Reflection
Look After Children (LAC)
Understanding and Supporting Looked After Children (LAC) Through Data-Driven Insights.
Look After Children (LAC)
Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET)
Predicting and Supporting Young People at Risk of NEET
Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET)