About Me

I conduct research at the intersection of medical informatics, artificial intelligence, semantic technologies, and data science to advance trustworthy, human-centered digital health. My work focuses on FAIR data, semantic interoperability, privacy-preserving distributed analytics, and machine-actionable knowledge for learning health systems.

My ambition is to transform health data into interoperable, explainable, and machine-actionable knowledge that enables trustworthy AI, accelerates scientific discovery, empowers patients and healthcare professionals, and supports evidence-based decision-making without compromising fairness, equity, privacy, confidentiality, or societal values.

My research spans medical informatics, AI in healthcare, semantic web technologies, clinical decision support, patient empowerment, research data management, and the ethical and societal implications of data.

Research Interests

  • Biomedical Informatics & Digital Health

    Clinical Informatics • Learning Health Systems • Clinical Decision Support • Precision Medicine • Patient Empowerment • Health Information Systems

  • FAIR Data, Interoperability & Knowledge Engineering

    FAIR Data Principles • Research Data Management • Semantic Interoperability • Knowledge Graphs • Ontology Engineering • Machine-Actionable Data • Metadata Standards • FHIR & Health Data Standards

  • Trustworthy AI, Distributed Analytics & Data-Driven Healthcare

    Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare • Explainable AI • Federated Learning • Distributed Analytics • Privacy-Preserving Analytics • AI-Enabled Decision Support • Large Language Models

  • Responsible Data, Ethics & Societal Impact

    Responsible AI • Data Ethics • Responsible Data Governance • Fairness & Equity • Privacy & Confidentiality • AI Governance • Regulatory Compliance

  • Research Infrastructures & Open Science

    Research Infrastructures • FAIR Digital Objects • FAIR Data Spaces • European Health Data Space (EHDS) • Open Science • Reproducible Research • Data Integration • Interoperability Frameworks

 

education

2010

Doctor of Philosophy (in Medical Informatics)

Middle East Technical University, Informatics Institute, Department of Health Informatics, 2010.

2010

Master of Science (in Sociology)

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, 2010.

2003

Master of Science (in Information Systems)

Middle East Technical University, Informatics Institute, Department of Information Systems, 2003.

contact me

Full Name
Oya Deniz BEYAN
Visiting Address
Zülpicher Straße 56, Cologne, Germany
Postal Adress
Kerpener Straße 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany
e-mails
oya.beyan@uni-koeln.de
Phone
+49(0)221 478-82911

languages

English fluent
German intermediate
Turkish native