Dr Lana Tikhomirov
Research Fellow
School of Public Health
College of Health
Advancements in AI-based technologies far outpace research that inform us of their influence on human decision-making. As such, my work resides in the nascent field that combines AI safety, cognitive science, and bioethics research for development of complementary and safe AI technologies. Specifically, I investigate the impact of medical AI systems in clinical decision-making contexts and translational methodologies for AI in medicine. Further, I am interested in ethical and safe AI development to ensure fairness and accountability practices.
I completed by PhD in 2026 for my thesis entitled, 'What can cognitive science teach us about safe clinical decision-making with artificial intelligence?' supervised by Professor Carolyn Semmler (School of Psychology), Associate Professor Melissa McCradden (Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Women's and Children's Hospital) and Dr Lauren-Oakden Rayner.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher in clinical AI safety and the Human factors and health policy lead at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide. I am based at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning.
Advancements in AI far outpace research that inform us of their cognitive and decisional influences on humans. Traditional research on human-computer interaction demonstrates the challenges of effective decision-making when combining these two fundamentally different entities. As such, my work resides in the nascent field that combines AI safety, cognitive science, and human factors research for development of effective decisional AI technologies. Specifically, I investigate the impact of medical AI systems from model development to implementation on clinical decision-making. Based at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, my project is an interdisciplinary approach to the design and implementation of AI in high-risk settings. My research aims to inform human-computer interaction research from a cognitive science perspective and provide insight for industries in medical technology. Further, I am interested in ethical AI development to ensure fairness and accountability practices.
I am jointly supervised by Associate Professor Carolyn Semmler (School of Psychology) and Dr. Lauren Oakden-Rayner (School of Medicine/Australian Institute for Machine Learning).
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2025 | PhD Candidate | University of Adelaide |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders University | Australia | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | McCradden, M. D., London, A. J., Gichoya, J. W., Sendak, M., Erdman, L., Stedman, I., . . . Liu, X. (2025). CANAIRI: the Collaboration for Translational Artificial Intelligence Trials in healthcare.. Nat Med, 31(1), 9-11. Scopus19 WoS19 Europe PMC14 |
| 2024 | Tikhomirov, L., Semmler, C., McCradden, M., Searston, R., Ghassemi, M., & Oakden-Rayner, L. (2024). Medical artificial intelligence for clinicians: the lost cognitive perspective. The Lancet: Digital Health, 6(8), e589-e594. Scopus53 WoS46 Europe PMC26 |
| 2023 | Tikhomirov, L., Bartlett, M. L., Duncan-Reid, J., & McCarley, J. S. (2023). Identifying inefficient strategies in automation-aided signal detection.. J Exp Psychol Appl, 29(4), 869-886. Scopus9 WoS8 Europe PMC4 |
| - | Tikhomirov, L., Semmler, C., Prizant, N., Bhasin, S., Kenyon, G., van der Vegt, A., . . . McCradden, M. D. (2026). A scoping review of silent trials for medical artificial intelligence. Nature Health, 1(5), 532-554. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Tikhomirov, L. (2025). Good Decision-Making With Artificial Intelligence in Hospital Settings: Safety, Efficacy, Evidence and Ethics. In ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY Vol. 21 (pp. 1 page). WILEY. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Tikhomirov, L., Smith, L., Bird, A., Palmer, L., Kurian, N. C., & Semmler, C. (2026). What lies beneath performance gains? How cognitive modelling provides a compass for understanding changes to radiological decision-making with AI. DOI |