Ben Holgate

Dr Ben Holgate joined the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics as a Senior Research Fellow in Health-Related Natural Language Processing in 2025 working on the DATAMIND research project on mental health. In the previous two years he was a Senior Research Fellow in AI Methods Applied to Health Records in the Department of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience working on epilepsy research. He continues in that role on a part-time basis as Co-PI of an MRC-funded epilepsy project. Ben’s work focuses on AI Health, mostly in applying Large Language Models and other NLP tools to medical texts, but also in applying other data science methodologies. Prior to joining King’s College London in 2023, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and taught at the University of York. He also has a background in finance and the media. He holds a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford, and masters degrees in data science (Birkbeck) and finance (University of Sydney). He is the author of Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse (Routledge, 2019).

AI Health

Natural Language Processing

Large Language Models

Data Science

Literature

Computational analysis of texts