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Mark Dredze is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Inaugural Director of the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute.
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Mark Dredze is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Inaugural Director of the JHU Data Science and AI Institute. He develops artificial intelligence systems based on natural language processing and explores applications to public health and medicine.
Prof. Dredze is affiliated with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Center for Language and Speech Processing, among others. He holds a joint appointment in the Biomedical Informatics & Data Science Section, under the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, in the School of Medicine. He obtained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.
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Mark Dredze is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and the Inaugural Director of the JHU Data Science and AI Institute. He also serves as Associate Head of Research and Strategic Initiatives for the Department of Computer Science.
Prof. Dredze’s research develops artificial intelligence systems based on natural language processing, with applications to public health and medicine. His work spans tobacco control, vaccination, infectious disease surveillance, mental health, drug use, and gun violence prevention, alongside methods for clinical natural language processing on medical records.
He is affiliated with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Center for Language and Speech Processing, and holds a joint appointment in the Biomedical Informatics & Data Science Section in the School of Medicine. His research is regularly covered by NPR, The New York Times, and CNN. He obtained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 under Fernando Pereira.
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