Shamus Sim · AI Engineer and Researcher

Shamus Sim

Building machine learning for healthcare & the life sciences

AI Research Assistant at Monash University with a Computational Biomedical Engineering (Honours) degree from Imperial College London. I work across medical computer vision, LLMs, and multimodal models — from research to deployment.

🌏 Born in Sarawak, Malaysia 📍 Based in Melbourne, Australia

My journey

From Borneo to the world

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Sarawak

Where it began

Roots

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London

Imperial College

2019–23

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Kuala Lumpur

Building AI

2023–25

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Melbourne

Research

2025 · now

What I'm working on

Research Focus

Applying modern machine learning to problems in medicine and biology.

Can Agentic AI Handle Medicine's Long Tail?

DermArena — a multimodal dermatology benchmark from real clinical case reports, pitting frontier multimodal LLMs against agentic systems on the long tail of rare disease, and grounding the design of new clinical agents.

Multimodal AI for Alzheimer's

Integrating proteomics and MRI data to detect Alzheimer's disease and uncover clinically meaningful biomarkers.

From Borneo to the world

Research Focus

Can Agentic AI Handle Medicine's Long Tail?

Multimodal AI for Alzheimer's

Publications