About me

I am Research Associate in the Department of Informatics in King's College London. I am part of the Reasoning and planning research group.

• Computational Models of Argument
• Automated model selection
• Data Science
• Explainable AI

My PhD Thesis is titled: Argumentation for statistical model selection and was supervised by Dr. Jereon Keppens, Prof Peter McBurney and Prof Mark McGurk. More information about the thesis is available here PhD Thesis details

Prior to undertaking a PhD in Informatics at KCL, I worked as a Statistics and Data Mining Consultant for SAS, Amdocs and Tel Aviv University Statistical Laboratory. I have over 15 years of experience in delivering statistics, data mining and data science projects.

Publications

• A formalisation and prototype implementation of Argumentation for Statistical Model Selection
  I. Sassoon and S. Zillessen and J. Keppens and P. McBurney,
  Argument & Computation, 2018 (Accepted/In press)
  
• Instantiating Metalevel Argumentation Frameworks
  Kokciyan, N., Sassoon, I. K., Young, A. P., Modgil, S. & Parsons, S.,
  7th International Conference of Computational Models of Argument, 2018 (Accepted/In press)
  
• Reasoning with Metalevel Argumentation Frameworks in Aspartix
  Kokciyan, N., Sassoon, I. K., Young, A. P., Modgil, S. & Parsons,
  7th International Conference of Computational Models of Argument, 2018 (Accepted/In press)
  
• Towards an Argumentation System for Supporting Patients in Self-Managing their Chronic Conditions
  Kokciyan, N., Sassoon, I. K., Young, A. P., Chapman, M. D., Porat, T. R., Ashworth, M., Curcin, V., Modgil, S., Parsons, S. D. & Sklar, E. I.,
  AAAI Joint Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI 2018) , 2018
  
• An Investigation of Argumentation Framework Characteristics
  Murphy, J., Sassoon, I. K., Luck, M. M. & Black, E.,
  The 3rd International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argument, 2017
  
• Preferences in argumentation for Statistical Model Selection
  I. Sassoon and J. Keppens and P. McBurney,
  6th International Conference of Computational Models of Argument, 2016
  
• Towards Argumentation for Statistical Model Selection
  I. Sassoon and J. Keppens and P. McBurney
  5th International Conference of Computational Models of Argument, 2014

• Developing a risk stratification tool for audit of outcome after surgery for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
  Tighe, D. F., Thomas, A. J., Sassoon, I., Kinsman, R. & McGurk, M.
  Head & Neck: journal for the sciences and specialities of the head and neck., 2017
• Development of a benchmarking tool for audit of early outcomes after surgery for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  D. Tighe and A. J. Thomas and R. Kinsman and I. Sassoon and M. McGurk
  British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2016
• Validating a benchmarking tool for audit of early outcomes after operations for head and neck cancer
  D. Tighe and I. Sassoon and M. McGurk
  The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2016
• Use of pentoxifylline and tocopherol in the management of osteoradionecrosis
  V. Patel and Y. Gadiwalla and I. Sassoon and C. Sproat and J. Kwok and M. McGurk
  British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2016
• Sentinel European Node Trial (SENT): 3-year results of sentinel node biopsy in oral cancer
  C. Schilling and S. J. Stoeckli and S. K. Haerle and M. A. Broglie and G. F. Huber and J. A. Sorensen and V. Bakholdt and A. Krogdahl and C. von Buchwald and A. Bilde and L. R. Sebbesen and E. Odell and B. Gurney and M. O'Doherty and R. de Bree and E. Bloemena and G. B. Flach and P. M. Villarreal and M. F. F. Forcelledo and L. M. J. Gutiarrez and J. A. Amazaga and L. Barbier and J. SantamarÃ-a-Zuazua and A. Moreira and M. Jacome and M. G. Vigili and S. Rahimi and G. Tartaglione and G. Lawson and M.-C. Nollevaux and C. Grandi and D. Donner and E. Bragantini and D. Dequanter and P. Lothaire and T. Poli and E. M. Silini and E. Sesenna and G. Dolivet and R. Mastronicola and A. Leroux and I. Sassoon and P. Sloan and M. McGurk
  European Journal of Cancer<, 2015
• Prophylactic use of pentoxifylline and tocopherol in irradiated head and neck oncology patients requiring dental extractions
  V. Patel and M. McGurk and C. Sproat and J. Kwok and Y. Gadiwalla and I. Sassoon
  The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2015
• Is benchmarking possible in audit of early outcomes after operations for head and neck cancer?
  D. Tighe and I. Sassoon and A. Kwok and M. McGurk,
  British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2014

Teaching

Modules Taught at KCL

• 7CCSMCMP - Computer Programming for Data Scientists
• 7CCSMDM1 - Data Mining

Research

I am currently a Post Doctoral Research Associate on the CONSULT project at the Dept of Informatics at KCL. For more details see Consult project website

My research interests are in Data Science and Argumentation.

• This Collaborative mobile decision Support for managing multiple morbidities (CONSULT) project focuses on combining information from multiple sources to:
• • Intelligently address the changing needs of patients, as cared for by cooperative teams of participants including the patients themselves.
  • Provide decision support for each participant medical professionals (nurses, clinicians), non-professional carers (family, friends)
  • Ensure the decision-maker is able to trace the provenance of the information and balance the relative importance of information and its source, applied to each decision