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I have been appointed the Inaugural Director of the Data Science and AI Institute.

Our paper on RAG LLMs are Not Safer was covered by Waters Technology, Radical Data Science, and Dataconomy.

Alex Spangher, Violet Peng, Sebastian Gehrmann and I received an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP for our paper Do LLMs Plan Like Human Writers? Comparing Journalist Coverage of Press Releases with LLMs.

I gave a seminar "Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Tobacco Regulatory Science" to the Center for Coordination of Analytics, Science, Enhancement , and Logistics (CASEL).

I was a speaker at the JHU event AI for Journalists.

I was a speaker at the JHU event AI for Congressional Staffers.

I was a panelist at the Federal Reserve Bank's Workshop on Credit Card Lending, Consumer Finance and the AI Revolution.

I was a panelist at the NIH National Library of Medicine Workshop on AI for Improving Health Equity.

I was a panelist at the Forum on Engineered AI Systems hosted by Johns Hopkins University and the Forum on Complex Unifiable Systems at the National Academy of Engineering.

I gave a keynote talk at the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Workshop on Applying LLMs in LMICs for Healthcare Solutions.

I gave a seminar to the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging & Health.

I gave a seminar at the University of Minnesota.

My presentation of the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture, on the occassion of my promotion to Full Professor. [video]

I gave a talk at the University of Cambridge.

I gave a talk at the ASSET Center at the University of Pennsylvania on Large Language Models in Medicine.

I gave a talk on medical applications of LLMs at MILA.

I testified to the Maryland State Legislature on the uses of Artificial Intelligence.

I gave a talk at the JHU Technology Collaboratory for Aging Research (JH AITC) workshop on Large Pre-Trained Models.

I gave a talk at PRIM&R 2023 on "Ethical Considerations for Using Generative AI in Human Subjects Research".

I gave a talk at the Emerging Technologies: Innovation & Governance Symposium organized by the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

I gave a talk at Amazon about Fine-Tuning Large Language Models.

I gave a talk to the Bloomberg Health Systems Forum about AI and Its Consequences for Health Systems in Low and Middle-Income Countries.

I spoke to the White House Fellows Foundation and Association about the risks and opportunities of AI.

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 (no longer available).

I gave a talk at the annual conference of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs about AI for Public Health.

I gave a talk at the MIDAS Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Webinar Series on GenAI in Healthcare and Public Health.

I am honored to be part of the new JHU AI Initiative. Read my breakdown.

I was interviewed for an ABC News story on AI to preserve loved ones after death.

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.

I was promoted to Full Professor!

I will serve as the inaugural Director of Research (Foundations of AI) for the JHU Data Science and AI Institute.

I was part of the team that built BloombergGPT (ArXiv) which was covered by Yahoo (no longer available), Fox Business, and Waters Technology.

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.

I was the guest on the inaugural episode of the Foley Innovative Technology Insights podcast, where I spoke about The New Age of AI.

I was the guest speaker at the Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research Webinar. [Video]

Our COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with automated annotations passed 65,000 downloads.

An interview with me about Online Data was featured in the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

Our paper on Twitter and Facebook posts during COVID-19 was covered by The Hill.

I was interviewed by the New York Times about Vaccine Selfies.

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?.

I am quoted in an article by Insider on Anti-vax users on Facebook.

The New York Times covered our paper on Weaponized Health Communication.

We launched socialmobility.covid19dataresources.org to track mobility in the United States as the result of social distancing (the domain has since lapsed). The work has been covered by The Daily Mail, NBC News, Politico, and US News.

We launched covid19dataresources.org as a resource for social media data in the fight against COVID-19 (the domain has since lapsed).

I was interviewed about my work on misinformation and the Coronavirus.

I was interviewed by the AP about misinformation and Coronavirus.

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 (no longer available), Stuff, Business Insider, Drugs.com, 10 Daily, MedPage Today, Health Day (no longer available), iNews, Union Tribune, New Zealand Herald (no longer available), Mpravda (no longer available), Yahoo! (no longer available), News Beezer, Silicon Republic, Mic, Becker's Health IT, Global Times China, The Star, Healthline, Vice, Dr. Oz (no longer available).

My colleague John Ayers appeared on Fox News to discuss our paper on CBD.

Multiple outlets covered our paper on CBD Google searches, including ABC, Daily Mail, Market Watch, and USA Today.

The Washington Post cites our JAMA Internal Medicine study as motivation for Netflix modifying episodes of "13 Reasons Why".

Tobacco Watcher, co-developed by my group, is now publicly available.

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."

Coverage of our JAMA Internal Medicine study on substance abuse information sharing following the hospitalization of Demi Lovato.

The Johns Hopkins Magazine covered our work on Weaponized Health Communication.

Dictionary.com named "misinformation" as the word of the year for 2018 in part because of our article on Weaponized Health Communication.

Altmetric named our article on Weaponized Health Communication as a top 20 article for 2018 (no longer available). The article was features in an Altmetric podcast.

Gave a webinar as part of the Connected & Open Research Ethics (CORE) Project on ethics of using social media data for health. [Video]

Talk at the Georgetown University Workshop on Computing for Physical and Mental Health.

The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics wrote a blog post about our recent work on Conducting Research in Commercially-Owned Online Space.

Is Social Media Having a Positive or Negative Impact on Public Health? The Bloomberg Public Health Magazine asked, I answered.

My work was featured in the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine: Modern Day Miners.

Talk at the UMD CLIP Lab.

My colleagues (120+!) and I authored a letter to promote welcoming environments for women at machine learning conferences.

Our paper on online sales of marijuana was covered by NBC, US News & World Report, Inquisitr (no longer available), Futurism, Civilized, Fresh and Inverse. Check out video coverage by NBC affiliate WCNC in Charlotte, NC.

I was named the John C Malone Associate Professor of Computer Science.

I was featured in Baltimore Style for my work on gun violence.

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 (no longer available), International Business Times, IB Times UK, Women's Health,MSN (no longer available), US News & World Report, Unilad (no longer available), Honey (no longer available), Global News, Fox News, Live Science.

Tech at Bloomberg article about our work on sales of in-home HIV Tests.

Talk at Amazon NYC (no longer available).

Our paper about youth violence was referenced in a 20/20 episode last year.

Talk at the Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange.

Talk at Harvard Computer Science Colloquium Series (no longer available).

Article about our work on Gun Violence.

Talk at Data Science for Social Good.

Talk at the Google.

Our work on Leonardo DiCaprio and climate change was covered in the Washington Post, Forbes, Time, and New York Magazine.

Talk at the Bloomberg Quant seminar series.

I was interviewed by On the Media about our paper on the Zika virus.

Coverage (Medical Daily, Vocativ (no longer available), MediaPost, Baltimore Sun, Undark) of our study on the Zika virus pseudoscience on social media.

Coverage of our study on the Disneyland measles outbreak.

Talk at Cornell Tech.

Talk at Columbia University.

Talk on "How News and Social Media Inform Finance" at the Bloomberg and Columbia Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance.

Our study on the impact of the Great American Smokeout was covered by CBS News, Science of Us, Lifezette (no longer available), and US News and World Report.

Our study on the "Sheen Effect" ranks in the top .03% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

Bloomberg LP discussed our "Sheen effect" article.

Charlie Sheen tweeted a link to our study on the "Sheen Effect". Dr. Oz wrote an article as well.

Coverage of our paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on electronic cigarette use in Medical Daily, and other outlets.

Coverage of our paper in American Psychologist on youth violence in the media: Science Codex.

Media coverage of our work on forecasting the flu using multiple data sources.

Talk at Text as Data.

Our work on Reddit and suicide in the news.

I'm quoted in a Washington Post story on social media and health.

Our work on social media and health, including coverage of multiple articles, was published on BuzzFeed.

Our work on Twitter and vaccines was published on The Conversation.

Talk at the NIH NIMHD Workshop on Science of Prevention and Health Promotion to Address Health Disparities. (no longer available)

Glen Coppersmith and I participated in an SPSM chat on using Twitter to track mental health. [Video]

Our work on Twitter and vaccines is covered by NY Mag, Business Standard, MedicalXpress, EurekAlert (no longer available), Healio, and Lab Manager.

Two talks at Columbia University.

Talk at Microsoft Research NYC.

I wrote an article entitled "Mining 21st Century Chatter?" for the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine.

Our paper "What Are Health-Related Users Tweeting?" was in the top 10 most tweeted articles in JMIR for 2014. (no longer available)

Our work on Twitter and mental health is covered by the New York Times.

Our work on Twitter and mental health is covered by GigaOM and The Washington Post.

Our work on the flu featured on the NBC Nightly News [video].

Talks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on tobacco control and public health surveillance.

Talk at the American Cancer Society.

The Partially Derivative podcast covered our mental health work.

Our work on Twitter and mental health is covered by Fox News (no longer available), The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, redOrbit, and Voice of America.

Our work on the flu in Fast Company.

I'm quoted in an article about hospital community engagement (Hospitals & Health Networks.).

Our work on flu in Healthcare Global (no longer available).

Our work on pollution in China is covered by CBS News, Take Part (no longer available), and Yahoo

Our work on mental health is covered in Newsweek.

Our work on flu forecasting is covered by Slate.

I'm quoted in a POLITICO article on Ebola response.

Our work on mental health is mentioned by Fortune.

Talk at the Influenza Prediction Workshop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Out work on mental health is covered by The Boston Globe.

Our work on mental health is covered by Beta Boston

I gave an invited talk at the Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media (no longer available)

I'm quoted in a BBC article on email

I gave a keynote talk at the eHealth Initiative's National Forum on Data and Analytics

Our new AJPM paper on Healthy Mondays has been covered by Bloomberg business week, The Atlantic, and Refinery29

Bloomberg news quotes me in an article on disease outbreaks in social media

I was on the Osgood Files talking about flu surveillance.

The Times of London is covering our work on the economy and health by doing their own analysis for the UK

Talk on new technology for influenza surveillance at Preparedness Summit 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

Our work on flu tracking was on Weekend Edition Saturday

Talk at University of Michigan

Talk at Brigham Young University (no longer available)

Talk at Amazon's Machine Learning Group

Talk at Microsoft Research

The new Twitter data grants program is drawing attention to my work NBCNews.com

We hosted NACLO at JHU as the largest site in North America.

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.

My co-author John Ayers gave a TedX talk on our work.

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.

I was on WTOP radio on the National Academy of Engineering segment (no longer available) talking about our work on tracking the flu with Twitter.

Talk at Digital Surveillance Workshop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

My work on mining drug forums was featured in the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine.

Talk at Workshop on Digital Epidemiology (no longer available) at the ISI Foundation.

CPHIT and my work were featured in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine.

Talk at Columbia in the IGERT From Data to Solutions seminar.

I spoke at the Big Data in Public Health (no longer available) conference.

Our work was featured in the Washington Post.

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.

David Broniatowski, my colleague in CAM in Emergency Medicine, was on Sound Medicine talking about our work.

Midday with Dan Rodricks (no longer available). My segment starts around 25:00.

I was on the WYPR health minute [Here] and [Here].

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.

Our work is covered in a Nature News article.

Talk at Columbia in the Biomedical Informatics Department (no longer available).

Our work on tracking influenza with Twitter received a lot of press, including CNN, MarketWatch TV and Michigan Radio.

My student Michael Paul has been awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

Talk at Emory in the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QuanTM) Seminar Series (no longer available).

Talk at Georgia Tech in the Robotics and Intelligent Machines Center (RIM) Seminar Series (no longer available).

I will be the NAACL 2013 area chair for machine learning with Phil Blunsom.

I am helping to organize the second annual Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC 2012).

I attended the CCC Computing and Healthcare Symposium (no longer available).

Talk at the University of Pennsylvania.

Talk at the University of Delaware.

I am co-organizing a AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Text.

Talk at the Applied Physics Lab.

Work featured on Twitter Stories. Excellent Video.

I am a panelist at SXSW. Notes from an audience member.

Talk at University of Texas- Dallas (no longer available).

I am a panelist at the Conference of Digital Disease Detection. A video of my talk is available online.

We hosted NACLO.

I am teaching Current Topics in Machine Learning (600.775) in the Spring of 2012. [Class site]

Talk at the NIH Opportunities in Data Visualization and Visual Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (no longer available).

Talk at JHU's BioStats Seminar.

Talk at Carnegie Mellon University.

Talk at Mass General Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics.

We are hosting 140 people at the first Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning.

My student Ariya Rastrow was awarded the inaugural Frederick Jelinek Fellowship.

A feature on our Twitter+Health work in The Johns Hopkins Magazine.

I will be the ACL 2012 area chair for machine learning with Trevor Cohn.

I am teaching Machine Learning (600.475) in the Fall of 2011. [Class site]

I was on NPR. What fun! Midday with Dan Rodricks [Audio (no longer available)]. Also, see the WYPR health minute [Here] and [Here].

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 (no longer available) and PressHereTV.

Talk at the CLSP summer school. [Video]

Congratulations to Carolina Parada, who successfully defended her thesis! She is off to Google Research.

Giving a talk at the Applied Physics Lab on entity disambiguation.

Giving a talk at Health Informatics Seminar. [Video]

We served as one of the largest NACLO host sites.

I am teaching a new seminar on Machine Learning.

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 (no longer available) on the workshop.

My student Carolina Parada was awarded the 2010 Google Graduate Fellowship in Speech.