Sheikh Abdullah

Dr. Sheikh S. Abdullah is an Adjunct Scientist at ICES Western, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at MacEwan University, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Western University. He is a machine learning and biostatistics researcher whose work bridges computer science, clinical epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology. His research program develops predictive models and visual analytics frameworks to tackle critical challenges in chronic diseases, drug safety, and other complex health conditions. He also advances high-throughput computing pipelines and federated analytics frameworks to securely process multi-jurisdictional health data, ensuring both efficiency and privacy. By leveraging large-scale administrative and clinical datasets from ICES and Alberta Health Services, Dr. Abdullah designs scalable, reproducible tools for risk stratification and causal inference. His work aims to identify high-risk patients earlier, improve prescribing safety, and enable data-driven decision-making to inform clinical practice and health policy.