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Md Sarker

  • Department of Biomedical Informatics
    Associate Professor
  • Emory University
    Biomedical Informatics
    101 Woodruff Circle, Office 4101
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Overview

I am an Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics at Emory University School of Medicine. I also serve as the Vice Chair for Research at the department.

My research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP), applied machine learning, public health and medicine. In particular, I am interested in building end-to-end systems that can convert big natural language data into valuable and actionable knowledge.

Over the last several years, my research has focused very heavily on social media data. Social media, due to its high adoption in the population, presents us with the unique opportunity to conduct population-level health studies and curate knowledge in near real time. At the same time the characteristics of social media posts such as noise, misspellings and non-standard language present exciting challenges for NLP and machine learning. I am the Principal Investigator (PI) of a NIDA-NIH funded grant titled: Mining Social Media Big Data for Toxicovigilance: Automating the Monitoring of Prescription Medication Abuse via NLP and ML Methods (R01DA046619). The goal is to develop methods that can effectively utilize the vast amounts of data about prescription medication abuse, including opioid abuse, that is publicly available via social media to better understand and characterize the problem.

I am also currently directing or contributing to several projects involving text from distinct domains such as electronic health records, social media and published medical literature.

I believe in reproducible and community-driven research, and always try to publicly publish my code. I frequently run specialized workshops on NLP, SMM and applied ML to teach/train researchers and students from a wide spectrum of educational backgrounds.

I am available (and typically enthusiastic) to work on new, challenging projects, run specialized workshops, or talk about potential applications of NLP and applied ML using big and small data. Feel free to contact me via email.

More details at:
https://abeedsarker.com/
https://sarkerlab.org/

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Emory University

Education

Degrees

  • PhD from Macquarie University
  • Honours (Traditional Australian) from Macquarie University
  • Bachelors from Macquarie University

Research

Publications

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