Sima Abbasi is a Machine Learning Resident at Amii and holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Alberta. Her doctoral research combined neuroscience and bioinformatics, including RNA sequencing and neurovascular imaging, to investigate stroke-related injury and immune responses. During her postdoctoral work, she contributed to projects in stroke genomics and SNP analysis, and to a collaboration developing an LLM and RAG system for multiomics. She was also a scholar in the Canadian Neuroanalytics (CNS) Program, where her work with genomic and multimodal imaging data marked her formal entry into machine learning and AI.

Outside of work, Sima loves bringing friends and family together around the table, whether for a dinner party or an evening of board games and late-night coffee. She also enjoys baking, painting, and making room in her day for a few pages of a book.