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I gave a talk at Amazon about Fine-Tuning Large Language Models.
November 9, 2023
I gave a talk to the Bloomberg Health Systems Forum about AI and Its Consequences for Health Systems in Low and Middle-Income Countries.
October 20, 2023
I spoke to the White House Fellows Foundation and Association about the risks and opportunities of AI.
September 6, 2023
I spoke on a panel about AI and Mental Health at the Summit for AI in Health Care hosted by the VA National AI Institute.
August 20, 2023
I gave a keynote talk at the International Symposium on Large Language Models for Financial Services (FinLLM 2023)@IJCAI 2023 on BloombergGPT.
August 10, 2023
I gave a talk at the annual conference of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs about AI for Public Health.
August 8, 2023
I gave a talk at the MIDAS Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Webinar Series on GenAI in Healthcare and Public Health.
August 3, 2023
I am honored to be part of the new JHU AI Initiative. Read my breakdown.
July 21, 2023
I was interviewed for an ABC News story on AI to preserve loved ones after death.
July 11, 2023
My student Aaron Mueller won an outstanding paper award at ACL 2023. The paper is Language model acceptability judgements are not always robust to context.
June 1, 2023
I was promoted to Full Professor!
May 15, 2023
I am a co-organizer of the AI Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities for AI and Data Science in Academia.
May 2, 2023
I was interviewed by WMAR about our paper on ChatGPT answering medical questions from Reddit
May 1, 2023
Our paper on ChatGPT answering medical questions from Reddit received widespread coverage, including from Gizmodo, The Baltimore Banner, The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Times, CNN, US News, and appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
March 31, 2023
I will serve as the inaugural Director of Research (Foundations of AI) for the JHU Data Science and AI Institute.
March 31, 2023
I was part of the team that built BloombergGPT (ArXiv) which was covered by Yahoo, Fox Business, and Waters Technology.
November 23, 2022
Elliot Schumacher, Jim Mayfield and I received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the EMNLP Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning for our paper on Zero-shot Cross-Language Transfer of Monolingual Entity Linking Models.
October 14, 2022
I was interviewed for the article Social Media Companies Know When Users Are Manic or Bipolar. So Why Don’t They Help Them?.
September 28, 2022
I was the guest on the inaugural episode of the Foley Innovative Technology Insights podcast, where I spoke about The New Age of AI.
June 29, 2022
I was the guest speaker at the Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research Webinar. [Video]
May 5, 2022
Our COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with automated annotations passed 65,000 downloads.
March 9, 2022
An interview with me about Online Data was featured in the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
January 12, 2022
Our paper on Twitter and Facebook posts during COVID-19 was covered by The Hill.
June 16, 2021
Our paper on Spread of Misinformation About Face Masks and COVID-19 by Automated Software on Facebook was covered by Scientific American, Axios and US News.
April 1, 2021
I was interviewed by the New York Times about Vaccine Selfies.
February 6, 2021
Our paper on Suicide-Related Internet Searches During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US was covered in the New York Times.
October 22, 2020
Our paper on Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019 covered by AP News.
October 21, 2020
Our paper on Quantifying Public Interest in Police Reforms by Mining Internet Search Data Following George Floyd’s Death covered by Science Codex, ZME Science and others.
October 15, 2020
Our paper on Self-reported Cannabidiol (CBD) Use for Conditions With Proven Therapies covered by Inverse, US News and others.
August 24, 2020
CNN covered our article on Internet Searches for Acute Anxiety During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
July 8, 2020
Shijie Wu and I won the Best Long Paper Award at the ACL Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) for our paper Are All Languages Created Equal in Multilingual BERT?.
May 29, 2020
I am quoted in an article by Insider on Anti-vax users on Facebook.
May 7, 2020
I co-authored an article on Compounding Crises: Gun Preparation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.
April 29, 2020
Our paper on Google Searches for Unproven COVID-19 Therapies was covered by the LA Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Newsweek, NBC News, and Courthouse News Service
April 13, 2020
The New York Times covered our paper on Weaponized Health Communication.
April 8, 2020
We launched http://socialmobility.covid19dataresources.org to track mobility in the United States as the result of social distancing. The work has been covered by The Daily Mail, NBC News, Politico, and US News.
March 30, 2020
We launched http://covid19dataresources.org as a resource for social media data in the fight against COVID-19.
March 27, 2020
I was interviewed about my work on misinformation and the Coronavirus.
January 31, 2020
I was interviewed by the AP about misinformation and Coronavirus.
November 18, 2019
Our paper on vaccine-related advertising on Facebook was covered by Gizmodo, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Ars Technica, Verdict, The Daily Beast, News Week, TNW and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
November 5, 2019
Multiple outlets covered our paper on crowd-diagnosing STDs on social media: NBC, CNN, ABC, US News & World Report, CNBC, Forbes, New York Post, Raw Story, Medscape, Daily Mail, Refinery 29, Healio, BGR, Futurism, Cnet, Stuff, Business Insider, Drugs.com, 10 Daily, MedPage Today, Health Day, iNews, Union Tribune, New Zealand Herald, Mpravda, Yahoo!, News Beezer, Silicon Republic, Mic, Becker's Health IT, Global Times China, The Star, Healthline, Vice, Dr. Oz.
October 25, 2019
My colleague John Ayers appeared on Fox News to discuss our paper on CBD.
October 24, 2019
Multiple outlets covered our paper on CBD Google searches, including ABC, Daily Mail, Market Watch, and USA Today.
July 16, 2019
The Washington Post cites our JAMA Internal Medicine study as motivation for Netflix modifying episodes of "13 Reasons Why".
June 4, 2019
Tobacco Watcher, co-developed by my group, is now publicly available.
February 2, 2019
We received the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education (FAHE) Ann E. Nolte Writing Award for our "Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate."
January 14, 2019
Coverage of our JAMA Internal Medicine study on substance abuse information sharing following the hospitalization of Demi Lovato.
December 13, 2018
The Johns Hopkins Magazine covered our work on Weaponized Health Communication.
December 12, 2018
Dictionary.com named "misinformation" as the word of the year for 2018 in part because of our article on Weaponized Health Communication.
December 12, 2018
Altmetric named our article on Weaponized Health Communication as a top 20 article for 2018. The article was features in an Altmetric podcast.
November 15, 2018
Gave a webinar as part of the Connected & Open Research Ethics (CORE) Project on ethics of using social media data for health. [Video]
November 9, 2018
Talk at the Georgetown University Workshop on Computing for Physical and Mental Health.
October 29, 2018
Installation of the John C Malone Associate Professorship: Mark Dredze [video]
October 15, 2018
The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics wrote a blog post about our recent work on Conducting Research in Commercially-Owned Online Space.
October 1, 2018
Is Social Media Having a Positive or Negative Impact on Public Health? The Bloomberg Public Health Magazine asked, I answered.
May 15, 2018
My work was featured in the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine: Modern Day Miners.
May 9, 2018
Talk at the UMD CLIP Lab.
March 30, 2018
My colleagues (120+!) and I authored a letter to promote welcoming environments for women at machine learning conferences.
March 26, 2018
Our paper on online sales of marijuana was covered by NBC, US News & World Report, Inquisitr, Futurism, Civilized, Fresh and Inverse. Check out video coverage by NBC affiliate WCNC in Charlotte, NC.
March 15, 2018
I was named the John C Malone Associate Professor of Computer Science.
January 3, 2018
I was featured in Baltimore Style for my work on gun violence.
December 19, 2017
Our paper about a selfie promoting public engagement with skin cancer was covered by the Daily Mail, Sun, Independent, Mirror, Allure, LADbible, Cosmopolitan, Hollywood Life,Yahoo!, Refinery 29, Buzz, International Business Times, IB Times UK, Women's Health,MSN, US News & World Report, Unilad, Honey, Global News, Fox News, Live Science.
November 9, 2017
Michael Paul and I wrote a book! Social Monitoring for Public Health. Preprint available for free. Press Release.
October 12, 2017
Our paper about heat-not-burn tobacco products was covered by Daily Mail, Discover Magazine, Global News, US News, Medpage Today, The Sun, The San Diego Union-Tribune and Web MD.
August 10, 2017
Our paper about increased interest in suicide following Thirteen Reasons Why was featured on the Johns Hopkins Hub.
July 14, 2017
Tech at Bloomberg article about our work on sales of in-home HIV Tests.
July 13, 2017
Talk at Amazon NYC.
May 22, 2017
TMZ covered our paper about the Sheen Effect on Rapid In-home HIV Tests by interviewing Charlie Sheen at a gas station.
May 19, 2017
Our paper about the Sheen Effect on Rapid In-home HIV Tests was covered by CNN, Global News, New York Magazine, Daily Mail, ABC News, Newsweek, US News & World Report, and Der Spiegel.
March 3, 2017
Our paper about reasons for e-cig use was covered by Live Science, InVerse, Men's Fitness, Vice, Medical Express, Mental Daily, iTech.
January 3, 2017
Our paper about youth violence was referenced in a 20/20 episode last year.
December 12, 2016
We won best paper for our paper on Name Variation in Community Question Answering Systems at 2016 The 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT).
September 25, 2016
Talk at the Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange.
September 22, 2016
Talk at Harvard Computer Science Colloquium Series.
September 19, 2016
Coverage of our JAMA IM article on Pokemon and distracted driving became a trending topic on Facebook.
September 19, 2016
Our JAMA IM article on Pokemon and distracted driving was covered by multiple news outlets:Mirror, Mashable, The Wrap, IBT, ABC, NBC, BBC, NPR, CNN, LA Times, NY Mag, Forbes, Fortune, DailyMail, Mirror, The Wrap, Le Figaro, Le Journal de Montreal, Yahoo News, Bustle, US News, Parent Herald, Dagens Medisin, Dagens Nyheter, MSN, MexicalExpress, Science News, Live Science, Health Day, Medical News Today, Touch Arcade, Kotaku, VG247, UpRoxx, Boston Herald, San Diego Union-Tribune, Mashable,Reuters,Fox News,Vice,Bustle,Gamerant.
September 7, 2016
Article about our work on Gun Violence.
August 25, 2016
Talk at Data Science for Social Good.
August 10, 2016
Talk at the Google.
August 5, 2016
Our work on Leonardo DiCaprio and climate change was covered in the Washington Post, Forbes, Time, and New York Magazine.
June 27, 2016
Talk at the Bloomberg Quant seminar series.
June 24, 2016
Talk at ICML Workshop on Data4Good presenting our paper on deriving global mobility patterns from Twitter.
June 3, 2016
I was interviewed by On the Media about our paper on the Zika virus.
May 24, 2016
Coverage (Medical Daily, Vocativ, MediaPost, Baltimore Sun, Undark) of our study on the Zika virus pseudoscience on social media.
May 12, 2016
Coverage of our study on the Disneyland measles outbreak.
May 10, 2016
Talk at Cornell Tech.
May 5, 2016
Talk at NYU Text as Data seminar series.
April 15, 2016
Talk at Columbia University.
April 1, 2016
Talk on "How News and Social Media Inform Finance" at the Bloomberg and Columbia Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance.
March 31, 2016
Our study on the impact of the Great American Smokeout was covered by CBS News, Science of Us, Lifezette, and US News and World Report.
February 28, 2016
Our study on the "Sheen Effect" ranks in the top .03% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
February 23, 2016
Bloomberg LP discussed our "Sheen effect" article.
February 22, 2016
Charlie Sheen tweeted a link to our study on the "Sheen Effect". Dr. Oz wrote an article as well.
February 22, 2016
Coverage of our JAMA IM paper on the "Sheen Effect" in the many news outlets: CNN, ABC (Video), NBC (Video), LA Times, Newsweek, Vox, US Magazine, WebMD, NY Mag, BBC, CBS News, Huffington Post.
February 11, 2016
Coverage of our paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on electronic cigarette use in Medical Daily, and other outlets.
January 15, 2016
Coverage of our paper in American Psychologist on youth violence in the media: Science Codex.
October 29, 2015
Media coverage of our work on forecasting the flu using multiple data sources.
October 16, 2015
Talk at Text as Data.
September 25, 2015
Our work on Reddit and suicide in the news.
September 10, 2015
Talk at the Symposium on Reimagining Health in Cities: New Directions in Urban Health Research, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 2015.[Video available]
July 27, 2015
I'm quoted in a Washington Post story on social media and health.
July 27, 2015
Talk at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
June 26, 2015
Our work on social media and health, including coverage of multiple articles, was published on BuzzFeed.
April 1, 2015
Our work on Twitter and vaccines was published on The Conversation.
March 30, 2015
Talk at the NIH NIMHD Workshop on Science of Prevention and Health Promotion to Address Health Disparities.
March 8, 2015
Glen Coppersmith and I participated in an SPSM chat on using Twitter to track mental health. [Video]
March 4, 2015
Our work on Twitter and vaccines is covered by NY Mag, Business Standard, MedicalXpress, EurekAlert, Healio, and Lab Manager.
January 7, 2015
Two talks at Columbia University.
January 6, 2015
Talk at Microsoft Research NYC.
January 1, 2015
I wrote an article entitled "Mining 21st Century Chatter?" for the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine.
December 29, 2014
Our paper "What Are Health-Related Users Tweeting?" was in the top 10 most tweeted articles in JMIR for 2014.
December 27, 2014
Our work on Twitter and mental health is covered by the New York Times.
December 22, 2014
Our work on Twitter and mental health is covered by GigaOM and The Washington Post.
December 19, 2014
Our work on the flu featured on the NBC Nightly News [video].
December 17, 2014
Talks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on tobacco control and public health surveillance.
December 16, 2014
Talk at the American Cancer Society.
December 12, 2014
The Partially Derivative podcast covered our mental health work.
December 12, 2014
Our work on Twitter and mental health is covered by Fox News, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, redOrbit, and Voice of America,
December 11, 2014
Our work on the flu in Fast Company.
December 9, 2014
I'm quoted in an article about hospital community engagement (Hospitals & Health Networks.).
December 9, 2014
Our work on flu in Healthcare Global.
November 21, 2014
Our work on pollution in China is covered by CBS News, Take Part, and Yahoo
November 13, 2014
Our work on mental health is covered in Newsweek.
November 7, 2014
I helped organize the Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Hackathon.
October 30, 2014
Our work on flu forecasting is covered by Slate.
October 2, 2014
I'm quoted in a POLITICO article on Ebola response.
August 24, 2014
Talk at the KDD Bloomberg workshop: "Unleash Data: Accelerate Impact". [Video]
August 22, 2014
Our work on mental health is mentioned by Fortune.
August 21, 2014
Talk at the Influenza Prediction Workshop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
August 19, 2014
Out work on mental health is covered by The Boston Globe.
August 12, 2014
Our work on mental health is covered by Beta Boston
June 27, 2014
I gave an invited talk at the Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media
May 26, 2014
I'm quoted in a BBC article on email
May 21, 2014
I gave a keynote talk at the eHealth Initiative's National Forum on Data and Analytics
April 28, 2014
Our new AJPM paper on Healthy Mondays has been covered by Bloomberg business week, The Atlantic, and Refinery29
April 11, 2014
Bloomberg news quotes me in an article on disease outbreaks in social media
April 10, 2014
I was on the Osgood Files talking about flu surveillance
April 5, 2014
The Times of London is covering our work on the economy and health by doing their own analysis for the UK
April 1, 2014
Talk on new technology for influenza surveillance at Preparedness Summit 2014
March 24, 2014
New results on flu tracking for cities covered by The Washington Post, The National Journal, The Daily Mail, and local CBS News (Video). The original press release is here
February 15, 2014
Our work on flu tracking was on Weekend Edition Saturday
February 14, 2014
Talk at University of Michigan
February 13, 2014
Talk at Brigham Young University
February 12, 2014
Talk at Amazon's Machine Learning Group
February 11, 2014
Talk at Microsoft Research
February 10, 2014
Talk at San Diego State School of Public Health
February 6, 2014
The new Twitter data grants program is drawing attention to my work NBCNews.com
January 30, 2014
We hosted NACLO at JHU as the largest site in North America.
January 29, 2014
I had a small role in contributing to the report on The Use of Social Media to Prevent Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Chronic Disease by the eHealth Initiative.
January 28, 2014
My co-author John Ayers gave a TedX talk on our work.
January 10, 2014
My work on public health effects of the great recession is featured in Huffington Post, New York Times Blogs, Daily Mail and the JHU HUB.
December 2, 2013
Talk at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy
October 20, 2013
I was on WTOP radio on the National Academy of Engineering segment talking about our work on tracking the flu with Twitter.
October 11, 2013
I will be on a panel at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL).
August 6, 2013
Talk at Digital Surveillance Workshop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
July 9, 2013
My work on mining drug forums was featured in the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine.
May 30, 2013
Talk at Workshop on Digital Epidemiology at the ISI Foundation.
May 22, 2013
CPHIT and my work were featured in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine.
April 30, 2013
Talk for the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
April 22, 2013
Talk at Columbia in the IGERT From Data to Solutions seminar.
April 22, 2013
Talk at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
March 19, 2013
I spoke at the Big Data in Public Health conference.
March 4, 2013
Our work was featured in the Washington Post.
February 28, 2013
I spoke at the Social Media And Response Management Interface Event (SMARMIE). My talk and subsequent panel are online (starts at 3:39.) I am also in the final panel.
February 23, 2013
David Broniatowski, my colleague in CAM in Emergency Medicine, was on Sound Medicine talking about our work.
February 22, 2013
Midday with Dan Rodricks. My segment starts around 25:00.
February 20, 2013
I was on the WYPR health minute [Here] and [Here].
February 14, 2013
I co-authored the report Understanding and preventing youth violence as part of the Subcommittee on Youth Violence of the Advisory Committee to the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation.
February 13, 2013
Our work is covered in a Nature News article.
February 7, 2013
Talk at Columbia in the Biomedical Informatics Department.
January 30, 2013
Our work on tracking influenza with Twitter received a lot of press, including CNN, MarketWatch TV and Michigan Radio.
January 18, 2013
My student Michael Paul has been awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.
November 14, 2012
Talk at Emory in the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QuanTM) Seminar Series.
November 13, 2012
Talk at Georgia Tech in the Robotics and Intelligent Machines Center (RIM) Seminar Series.
October 20, 2012
I will be the NAACL 2013 area chair for machine learning with Phil Blunsom.
October 19, 2012
I am helping to organize the second annual Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC 2012).
October 11, 2012
I attended the CCC Computing and Healthcare Symposium.
May 3, 2012
Talk at the University of Pennsylvania.
April 30, 2012
Talk at the University of Delaware.
April 1, 2012
I am co-organizing a AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Text.
March 29, 2012
Talk at the Applied Physics Lab.
March 12, 2012
Work featured on Twitter Stories. Excellent Video.
March 11, 2012
I am a panelist at SXSW. Notes from an audience member.
March 9, 2012
Talk at University of Texas- Dallas.
February 16, 2012
I am a panelist at the Conference of Digital Disease Detection. A video of my talk is available online.
February 2, 2012
We hosted NACLO.
February 1, 2012
I am teaching Current Topics in Machine Learning (600.775) in the Spring of 2012. [Class site]
January 30, 2012
Talk at the NIH Opportunities in Data Visualization and Visual Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
December 7, 2011
Talk at JHU's BioStats Seminar.
November 15, 2011
Talk at Carnegie Mellon University.
October 28, 2011
Talk at Mass General Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics.
September 23, 2011
We are hosting 140 people at the first Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning.
September 12, 2011
My student Ariya Rastrow was awarded the inaugural Frederick Jelinek Fellowship.
September 1, 2011
A feature on our Twitter+Health work in The Johns Hopkins Magazine.
September 1, 2011
I will be the ACL 2012 area chair for machine learning with Trevor Cohn.
August 15, 2011
I am teaching Machine Learning (600.475) in the Fall of 2011. [Class site]
August 10, 2011
I was on NPR. What fun! Midday with Dan Rodricks [Audio]. Also, see the WYPR health minute [Here] and [Here].
July 16, 2011
Our health mining research received some press coverage: great articles by The Atlantic and NPR; also see CBS News, Wall Street Journal (blog), Huffington Post, BBC, GigaOM. We've also been on TV! WJLA and PressHereTV.
6/30/2011 Talk at the CLSP summer school. [Video]
June 2, 2011
Congratulations to Carolina Parada, who successfully defended her thesis! She is off to Google Research.
May 23, 2011
Giving a talk at the Applied Physics Lab on entity disambiguation.
April 29, 2011
Giving a talk at Health Informatics Seminar. [Video]
February 3, 2011
We served as one of the largest NACLO host sites.
January 30, 2011
I am teaching a new seminar on Machine Learning.
July 1, 2010
I organized a workshop on Amazon Mechanical Turk at NAACL 2010. All of the data is available: Check it out. We received some press coverage on the workshop.
June 15, 2010
My student Carolina Parada was awarded the 2010 Google Graduate Fellowship in Speech.
June 2, 2011
Congratulations to Carolina Parada, who successfully defended her thesis! She is off to Google Research.
May 23, 2011
Giving a talk at the Applied Physics Lab on entity disambiguation.
April 29, 2011
Giving a talk at Health Informatics Seminar. [Video]
February 3, 2011
We served as one of the largest NACLO host sites.
January 30, 2011
I am teaching a new seminar on Machine Learning.
July 1, 2010
I organized a workshop on Amazon Mechanical Turk at NAACL 2010. All of the data is available: Check it out. We received some press coverage on the workshop.
June 15, 2010
My student Carolina Parada was awarded the 2010 Google Graduate Fellowship in Speech.
