Veysel Kocaman, PhD — CTO & Head of AI | PhD in ML | NLP & CV in Healthcare | Healthcare AI | GDE in ML | Speaker
CTO & Head of AI | PhD in ML | NLP & CV in Healthcare | Healthcare AI | GDE in ML | Speaker
Veysel Kocaman, PhD ranks #610 of 18,341 LinkedIn creators in Information Technology & Services, and is a standout voice in Netherlands. They have 13.1K followers and published 5 posts in the last 30 days at a 4.7% average engagement rate.
- 13.1K followers
- 5 posts / 30d
- 4.7% avg engagement
- 170 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Veysel claims to build trustworthy AI, yet manages a 0.21% engagement rate that implies even his own algorithm has blocked him. He spent years getting a PhD just to lead a company named after an 1800s poet who died of tuberculosis.
About Veysel
Healthcare AI leader, researcher, and technology executive operating at the intersection of clinical NLP, medical language models, Generative AI, and large-scale healthcare AI platforms, building trustworthy AI systems for high-stakes healthcare environments. Currently CTO & Head of Data Science at John Snow Labs, where I lead a 50+ person engineering and science organization that grew from an early-stage data science function into a mature delivery and innovation engine for healthcare AI. I oversee the strategy, architecture, and deployment of production-grade AI systems used by leading healthcare and life sciences organizations worldwide, and own multimillion-dollar AI programs. Experienced across the full lifecycle of AI innovation, from research and model development to platform architecture, organizational leadership, regulated deployment, and enterprise adoption. Proven track record translating advanced AI capabilities, including LLMs, RAG, multimodal systems, and clinical NLP, into trustworthy, scalable products operating on messy, real-world healthcare data. PhD in Computer Science from Leiden University with focus on self-supervised learning, robustness, and learning from small samples. Author of 40+ peer-reviewed publications, inventor on 2 issued U.S. patents, frequent international keynote and invited speaker, creator of Healthcare NLP library, the most widely used NLP library in the healthcare industry, and the key contributor to widely adopted open-source healthcare AI ecosystems including Spark NLP (160M+ downloads).
Highlights
- Top 5% in Netherlands — Ranked #6 of 343 creators
- Top 5% in Information Technology & Services — Ranked #49 of 1900 creators
- High Impact — 623 avg engagements per post · top 5%
- Top Engager — 4.75% rate · top 10%
Recent posts
This is a good rule of thumb from David Brooks about using AI without compromising your own sense judgment. https://lnkd.in/gV8tzAgS
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We invented a new biomarker for cardiovascular disease. The New York Times tells our story (link in comments). This week's announcements were a decade in the making. Currently, we don’t have a screening test for the most common cause of death in the world - cardiac disease. We have mammograms and colonoscopies, but no equivalent for the heart. The reason for this is simple: the ways we diagnose cardiac diseases are either too expensive or too invasive to do at population scale. But what if we could take a cheap and ubiquitous test already done hundreds of millions of times every year and use
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This week at #DataAISummit I presented with Veysel Kocaman, PhD how John Snow Labs is now automating the tuning & customization of clinical data #Deidentification projects using Agentic #AI. What used to take a few weeks of manual labors by data scientists is now largely automated - with regulatory-grade results. The talk: https://lnkd.in/e9q2Kx5c
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