Sumithra Velupillai, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in Applied Health Informatics, at the NIHR South London and Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK. She has a background in clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP), and previous to her current post, she has worked at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, on information extraction from Swedish clinical text, as a postdoc in the US (UCSD and University of Utah), and at KTH/King's College London on a 3-year Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions/Swedish Research Council international career grant fellowship. Her main area of expertise is in developing and applying NLP approaches for clinical use-cases.