Dr Stephen J Newhouse

Applied AI and data science. Bioinformatics, knowledge graphs, agentic AI.

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Hi, I’m Stephen.

I’ve spent 20+ years in bioinformatics, genomics, and life-sciences data science. That sounds like a long time until you remember how much the field has changed in just the last five. The questions stay the same though: how do we make sense of complex biomedical data, and how do we turn it into something that actually helps people?

For five years I led Professional Services at Biorelate, a UK biomedical AI company. In practice that meant making sure the science connected to what clients actually needed: accelerating a drug-discovery pipeline, untangling a messy real-world data workflow, or helping a team understand what they’d got and what they could do with it. Since June 2026 I’ve worked as an independent consultant and adviser through my own company, Carmen Provenance LTD.

Before this I worked across academia, the NHS, and pharma, building and leading teams, shipping ML models, and trying to make large-scale data projects land well in the real world.

Somewhere along the way I appear to have become an Agentic Engineer. Not by design, more by osmosis and a stubborn refusal to fall behind the LLM Joneses. Right now I’m particularly interested in where knowledge graphs, RAG, and multi-omics data are heading, and what that means for personalised medicine.

Always happy to connect with people working at the intersection of data, biology, and drug discovery. → LinkedIn · Email

Recent outcomes

  • Sole engineer on a production agent SDK and MCP server over a biomedical knowledge graph (memory, tool-use, evaluation, knowledge-graph reasoning), integrated by a top-10 global pharma into one of their internal agentic AI platforms.
  • Sole architect of a multi-agent target safety assessment system: knowledge graph + LLM evidence retrieval, programmatic citation, citation-traced reports in hours rather than weeks.
  • Built and ran a Professional Services and consulting function from zero.

What I’m working on