Dr. Abdalla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta. He received his PhD in Natural Language Processing from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He has previously worked with multiple hospitals and healthcare systems across Canada and internationally.

His research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing, clinical informatics, and AI ethics. He is specifically interested in identifying and addressing gaps in the translation of academic AI research to real-world clinical deployments. His work has received international media coverage from publications such as WIRED magazine, The Washington Post, and Fast Company among others.