{"id":154,"date":"2018-02-07T06:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wordpress\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:14:26","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"November 1, 2025<\/span>
\nI have been appointed the Inaugural Director of the Data Science and AI Institute<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 1, 2025<\/span>
\nOur paper on RAG LLMs are Not Safer<\/a> was covered by Waters Technology<\/a>, Radical Data Science<\/a>, and Dataconomy<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 2, 2024<\/span>
\nOur paper on Characterizing Services Advertised on Crisis Pregnancy Center Websites<\/a> was covered by The Dallas Morning News<\/a>, The Miami Herald<\/a>, Yahoo News<\/a> and The Tribune<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 14, 2024<\/span>
\nAlex 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<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 11, 2024<\/span>
\nI gave a seminar \"Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Tobacco Regulatory Science\" to the Center for Coordination of Analytics, Science, Enhancement , and Logistics (CASEL).<\/span>\n

\nAugust 6, 2024<\/span>
\nI was a speaker at the JHU event AI for Journalists.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 19, 2024<\/span>
\nI was a speaker at the JHU event AI for Congressional Staffers.<\/span>\n

\nJune 27, 2024<\/span>
\nI was a panelist at the Federal Reserve Bank's Workshop on Credit Card Lending, Consumer Finance and the AI Revolution.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJune 24, 2024<\/span>
\nI was a panelist at the NIH National Library of Medicine Workshop on AI for Improving Health Equity.<\/span>\n

\nJune 5, 2024<\/span>
\nI was a panelist at the Forum on Engineered AI Systems<\/a> hosted by Johns Hopkins University and the Forum on Complex Unifiable Systems at the National Academy of Engineering.<\/span>\n

\nJune 3, 2024<\/span>
\nI gave a keynote talk at the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Workshop on Applying LLMs in LMICs for Healthcare Solutions.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJune 3, 2024<\/span>
\nI gave a seminar to the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging & Health.<\/span>\n

\nMay 17, 2024<\/span>
\nI gave a seminar at the University of Minnesota.<\/span>\n

\nApril 16, 2024<\/span>
\nMy presentation of the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture, on the occassion of my promotion to Full Professor. [video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nMarch 7, 2024<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at the University of Cambridge.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 28, 2024<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at the ASSET Center at the University of Pennsylvania<\/a> on Large Language Models in Medicine.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 26, 2024<\/span>
\nI gave a talk on medical applications of LLMs at MILA.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 18, 2024<\/span>
\nI testified to the Maryland State Legislature on the uses of Artificial Intelligence.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 14, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at the JHU Technology Collaboratory for Aging Research (JH AITC) workshop on Large Pre-Trained Models.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 6, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at PRIM&R 2023 on \"Ethical Considerations for Using Generative AI in Human Subjects Research\".<\/span>\n

\nNovember 30, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at the Emerging Technologies: Innovation & Governance Symposium organized by the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 16, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at Amazon about Fine-Tuning Large Language Models.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 9, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a talk to the Bloomberg Health Systems Forum about AI and Its Consequences for Health Systems in Low and Middle-Income Countries.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 20, 2023<\/span>
\nI spoke to the White House Fellows Foundation and Association about the risks and opportunities of AI.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 6, 2023<\/span>
\nI spoke on a panel about AI and Mental Health at the Summit for AI in Health Care hosted by the VA National AI Institute<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 20, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a keynote talk at the International Symposium on Large Language Models for Financial Services (FinLLM 2023)@IJCAI 2023<\/a> on BloombergGPT<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 10, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at the annual conference of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs about AI for Public Health.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 8, 2023<\/span>
\nI gave a talk at the MIDAS Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Webinar Series<\/a> on GenAI in Healthcare and Public Health.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 3, 2023<\/span>
\nI am honored to be part of the new JHU AI Initiative<\/a>. Read my breakdown.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJuly 21, 2023<\/span>
\nI was interviewed for an ABC News story on AI to preserve loved ones after death<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 11, 2023<\/span>
\nMy student Aaron Mueller<\/a> won an outstanding paper award at ACL 2023. The paper is Language model acceptability judgements are not always robust to context<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJune 1, 2023<\/span>
\nI was promoted to Full Professor!<\/span>\n

\nMay 15, 2023<\/span>
\nI am a co-organizer of the AI Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities for AI and Data Science in Academia<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 2, 2023<\/span>
\nI was interviewed by WMAR<\/a> about our paper on ChatGPT answering medical questions from Reddit<\/a.<\/span>\n

\nMay 1, 2023<\/span>
\nOur paper on ChatGPT answering medical questions from Reddit<\/a> received widespread coverage, including from Gizmodo<\/a>, The Baltimore Banner<\/a>, The Guardian<\/a>, Daily Mail<\/a>, The Times<\/a>, CNN<\/a>, US News<\/a>, and appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 31, 2023<\/span>
\nI will serve as the inaugural Director of Research (Foundations of AI) for the JHU Data Science and AI Institute<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 31, 2023<\/span>
\nI was part of the team that built BloombergGPT<\/a> (ArXiv<\/a>) which was covered by Yahoo<\/a>, Fox Business<\/a>, and Waters Technology<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 23, 2022<\/span>
\nElliot Schumacher, Jim Mayfield and I received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the EMNLP Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning<\/a> for our paper on Zero-shot Cross-Language Transfer of Monolingual Entity Linking Models<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 14, 2022<\/span>
\nI was interviewed for the article Social Media Companies Know When Users Are Manic or Bipolar. So Why Don\u2019t They Help Them?<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 28, 2022<\/span>
\nI was the guest on the inaugural episode of the Foley Innovative Technology Insights podcast<\/a>, where I spoke about The New Age of AI.<\/span>\n

\nJune 29, 2022<\/span>
\nI was the guest speaker at the Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research Webinar<\/a>. [Video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nMay 5, 2022<\/span>
\nOur COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with automated annotations<\/a> passed 65,000 downloads.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 9, 2022<\/span>
\nAn interview with me about Online Data<\/a> was featured in the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 12, 2022<\/span>
\nOur paper on Twitter and Facebook posts during COVID-19<\/a> was covered by The Hill<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJune 16, 2021<\/span>
\nOur paper on Spread of Misinformation About Face Masks and COVID-19 by Automated Software on Facebook<\/a> was covered by Scientific American<\/a>, Axios<\/a> and US News<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nApril 1, 2021<\/span>
\nI was interviewed by the New York Times about Vaccine Selfies.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 6, 2021<\/span>
\nOur paper on Suicide-Related Internet Searches During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US<\/a> was covered in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 22, 2020<\/span>
\nOur paper on Facebook Pages, the \u201cDisneyland\u201d Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009\u20132019<\/a> covered by AP News<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 21, 2020<\/span>
\nOur paper on Quantifying Public Interest in Police Reforms by Mining Internet Search Data Following George Floyd\u2019s Death<\/a> covered by Science Codex<\/a>, ZME Science<\/a> and others.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 15, 2020<\/span>
\nOur paper on Self-reported Cannabidiol (CBD) Use for Conditions With Proven Therapies<\/a> covered by Inverse<\/a>, US News<\/a> and others.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 24, 2020<\/span>
\nCNN<\/a> covered our article on Internet Searches for Acute Anxiety During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 8, 2020<\/span>
\nShijie Wu and I won the Best Long Paper Award at the ACL Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP)<\/a> for our paper Are All Languages Created Equal in Multilingual BERT?<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 29, 2020<\/span>
\nI am quoted in an article by Insider on Anti-vax users on Facebook<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 7, 2020<\/span>
\nI co-authored an article on Compounding Crises: Gun Preparation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nApril 29, 2020<\/span>
\nOur paper on Google Searches for Unproven COVID-19 Therapies<\/a> was covered by the LA Times<\/a>, The Guardian<\/a>, The Daily Mail<\/a>, Newsweek<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>, and Courthouse News Service<\/a><\/span>\n

\nApril 13, 2020<\/span>
\nThe New York Times<\/a> covered our paper on Weaponized Health Communication<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nApril 8, 2020<\/span>
\nWe launched http:\/\/socialmobility.covid19dataresources.org<\/a> to track mobility in the United States as the result of social distancing. The work has been covered by The Daily Mail<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>, Politico<\/a>, and US News<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 30, 2020<\/span>
\nWe launched http:\/\/covid19dataresources.org<\/a> as a resource for social media data in the fight against COVID-19.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 27, 2020<\/span>
\nI was interviewed about my work on misinformation and the Coronavirus.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJanuary 31, 2020<\/span>
\nI was interviewed by the AP about misinformation and Coronavirus<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 18, 2019<\/span>
\nOur paper on vaccine-related advertising on Facebook<\/a> was covered by Gizmodo<\/a>, The Washington Post<\/a>, The Guardian<\/a>, Ars Technica<\/a>, Verdict<\/a>, The Daily Beast<\/a>, News Week<\/a>, TNW<\/a> and The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 5, 2019<\/span>
\nMultiple outlets covered our paper on crowd-diagnosing STDs on social media<\/a>: NBC<\/a>, CNN<\/a>, ABC<\/a>, US News & World Report<\/a>, CNBC<\/a>, Forbes<\/a>, New York Post<\/a>, Raw Story<\/a>, Medscape<\/a>, Daily Mail<\/a>, Refinery 29<\/a>, Healio<\/a>, BGR<\/a>, Futurism<\/a>, Cnet<\/a>, Stuff<\/a>, Business Insider<\/a>, Drugs.com<\/a>, 10 Daily<\/a>, MedPage Today<\/a>, Health Day<\/a>, iNews<\/a>, Union Tribune<\/a>, New Zealand Herald<\/a>, Mpravda<\/a>, Yahoo!<\/a>, News Beezer<\/a>, Silicon Republic<\/a>, Mic<\/a>, Becker's Health IT<\/a>, Global Times China<\/a>, The Star<\/a>, Healthline<\/a>, Vice<\/a>, Dr. Oz<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 25, 2019<\/span>
\nMy colleague John Ayers<\/a> appeared on Fox News<\/a> to discuss our paper on CBD.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nOctober 24, 2019<\/span>
\nMultiple outlets covered our paper on CBD Google searches<\/a>, including ABC<\/a>, Daily Mail<\/a>, Market Watch<\/a>, and USA Today<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 16, 2019<\/span>
\nThe Washington Post<\/a> cites our JAMA Internal Medicine<\/a> study as motivation for Netflix modifying episodes of \"13 Reasons Why\".<\/span>\n

\nJune 4, 2019<\/span>
\nTobacco Watcher<\/a>, co-developed by my group, is now publicly available.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 2, 2019<\/span>
\nWe 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.\"<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 14, 2019<\/span>
\nCoverage<\/a> of our JAMA Internal Medicine<\/a> study on substance abuse information sharing following the hospitalization of Demi Lovato.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 13, 2018<\/span>
\nThe Johns Hopkins Magazine<\/a> covered our work on Weaponized Health Communication<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 12, 2018<\/span>
\nDictionary.com named \"misinformation\" as the word of the year for 2018<\/a> in part because of our article on Weaponized Health Communication<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 12, 2018<\/span>
\nAltmetric named our article on Weaponized Health Communication<\/a> as a top 20 article for 2018<\/a>. The article was features in an Altmetric podcast<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 15, 2018<\/span>
\nGave a webinar as part of the Connected & Open Research Ethics (CORE) Project<\/a> on ethics of using social media data for health. [Video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nNovember 9, 2018<\/span>
\nTalk at the Georgetown University Workshop on Computing for Physical and Mental Health.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nOctober 29, 2018<\/span>
\nInstallation of the John C Malone Associate Professorship: Mark Dredze<\/a> [video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nOctober 15, 2018<\/span>
\nThe Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics wrote a blog post about our recent work on Conducting Research in Commercially-Owned Online Space<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 1, 2018<\/span>
\nIs Social Media Having a Positive or Negative Impact on Public Health? The Bloomberg Public Health Magazine asked, I answered.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMay 15, 2018<\/span>
\nMy work was featured in the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine: Modern Day Miners<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 9, 2018<\/span>
\nTalk at the UMD CLIP Lab<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 30, 2018<\/span>
\nMy colleagues (120+!) and I authored a letter to promote welcoming environments for women at machine learning conferences<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 26, 2018<\/span>
\nOur paper on online sales of marijuana<\/a> was covered by NBC<\/a>, US News & World Report<\/a>, Inquisitr<\/a>, Futurism<\/a>, Civilized<\/a>, Fresh<\/a> and Inverse<\/a>. Check out video coverage by NBC affiliate WCNC in Charlotte, NC.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMarch 15, 2018<\/span>
\nI was named the John C Malone Associate Professor of Computer Science.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 3, 2018<\/span>
\nI was featured in Baltimore Style for my work on gun violence<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 19, 2017<\/span>
\nOur paper about a selfie promoting public engagement with skin cancer<\/a> was covered by the Daily Mail<\/a>, Sun<\/a>, Independent<\/a>, Mirror<\/a>, Allure<\/a>, LADbible<\/a>, Cosmopolitan<\/a>, Hollywood Life<\/a>,Yahoo!<\/a>, Refinery 29<\/a>, Buzz<\/a>, International Business Times<\/a>, IB Times UK<\/a>, Women's Health<\/a>,MSN<\/a>, US News & World Report<\/a>, Unilad<\/a>, Honey<\/a>, Global News<\/a>, Fox News<\/a>, Live Science<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 9, 2017<\/span>
\nMichael Paul<\/a> and I wrote a book! Social Monitoring for Public Health<\/a>. Preprint available for free<\/a>. Press Release<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 12, 2017<\/span>
\nOur paper about heat-not-burn tobacco products<\/a> was covered by Daily Mail<\/a>, Discover Magazine<\/a>, Global News<\/a>, US News<\/a>, Medpage Today<\/a>, The Sun<\/a>, The San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a> and Web MD<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 10, 2017<\/span>
\nOur paper about increased interest in suicide following Thirteen Reasons Why<\/a> was featured on the Johns Hopkins Hub<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 14, 2017<\/span>
\nTech at Bloomberg article about our work on sales of in-home HIV Tests<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 13, 2017<\/span>
\nTalk at Amazon NYC<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 22, 2017<\/span>
\nTMZ covered our paper about the Sheen Effect on Rapid In-home HIV Tests<\/a> by interviewing Charlie Sheen at a gas station.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMay 19, 2017<\/span>
\nOur paper about the Sheen Effect on Rapid In-home HIV Tests<\/a> was covered by CNN<\/a>, Global News<\/a>, New York Magazine<\/a>, Daily Mail<\/a>, ABC News<\/a>, Newsweek<\/a>, US News & World Report<\/a>, and Der Spiegel<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 3, 2017<\/span>
\nOur paper about reasons for e-cig use<\/a> was covered by Live Science<\/a>, InVerse<\/a>, Men's Fitness<\/a>, Vice<\/a>, Medical Express<\/a>, Mental Daily<\/a>, iTech<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 3, 2017<\/span>
\nOur paper about youth violence was referenced in a 20\/20 episode<\/a> last year.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 12, 2016<\/span>
\nWe won best paper for our paper on Name Variation in Community Question Answering Systems<\/a> at 2016 The 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT)<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 25, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at the Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 22, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at Harvard Computer Science Colloquium Series<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 19, 2016<\/span>
\nCoverage of our JAMA IM article on Pokemon and distracted driving<\/a> became a trending topic on Facebook<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 19, 2016<\/span>
\nOur JAMA IM article on Pokemon and distracted driving<\/a> was covered by multiple news outlets:Mirror<\/a>, Mashable<\/a>, The Wrap<\/a>, IBT<\/a>, ABC<\/a>, NBC<\/a>, BBC<\/a>, NPR<\/a>, CNN<\/a>, LA Times<\/a>, NY Mag<\/a>, Forbes<\/a>, Fortune<\/a>, DailyMail<\/a>, Mirror<\/a>, The Wrap<\/a>, Le Figaro<\/a>, Le Journal de Montreal<\/a>, Yahoo News<\/a>, Bustle<\/a>, US News<\/a>, Parent Herald<\/a>, Dagens Medisin<\/a>, Dagens Nyheter<\/a>, MSN<\/a>, MexicalExpress<\/a>, Science News<\/a>, Live Science<\/a>, Health Day<\/a>, Medical News Today<\/a>, Touch Arcade<\/a>, Kotaku<\/a>, VG247<\/a>, UpRoxx<\/a>, Boston Herald<\/a>, San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>, Mashable<\/a>,Reuters<\/a>,Fox News<\/a>,Vice<\/a>,Bustle<\/a>,Gamerant<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 7, 2016<\/span>
\nArticle about our work on Gun Violence<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 25, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at Data Science for Social Good<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 10, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at the Google.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 5, 2016<\/span>
\nOur work on Leonardo DiCaprio and climate change was covered in the Washington Post<\/a>, Forbes<\/a>, Time<\/a>, and New York Magazine<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJune 27, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at the Bloomberg Quant seminar series.<\/span>\n

\nJune 24, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at ICML Workshop on Data4Good<\/a> presenting our paper on deriving global mobility patterns from Twitter<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJune 3, 2016<\/span>
\nI was interviewed by On the Media<\/a> about our paper on the Zika virus.<\/span>\n

\nMay 24, 2016<\/span>
\nCoverage<\/a> (Medical Daily<\/a>, Vocativ<\/a>, MediaPost<\/a>, Baltimore Sun<\/a>, Undark<\/a>) of our study on the Zika virus pseudoscience on social media.<\/span>\n

\nMay 12, 2016<\/span>
\nCoverage<\/a> of our study on the Disneyland measles outbreak.<\/span>\n

\nMay 10, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at Cornell Tech.<\/span>\n

\nMay 5, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at NYU Text as Data seminar series<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nApril 15, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk at Columbia University.<\/span>\n

\nApril 1, 2016<\/span>
\nTalk on \"How News and Social Media Inform Finance\" at the Bloomberg and Columbia Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 31, 2016<\/span>
\nOur study<\/a> on the impact of the Great American Smokeout was covered by CBS News<\/a>, Science of Us<\/a>, Lifezette<\/a>, and US News and World Report<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 28, 2016<\/span>
\nOur study on the \"Sheen Effect\" ranks in the top .03% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 23, 2016<\/span>
\nBloomberg LP discussed<\/a> our \"Sheen effect\" article.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 22, 2016<\/span>
\nCharlie Sheen tweeted a link<\/a> to our study on the \"Sheen Effect\"<\/a>. Dr. Oz wrote an article as well<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 22, 2016<\/span>
\nCoverage of our JAMA IM paper on the \"Sheen Effect\"<\/a> in the many news outlets: CNN<\/a>, ABC (Video)<\/a>, NBC (Video)<\/a>, LA Times<\/a>, Newsweek<\/a>, Vox<\/a>, US Magazine<\/a>, WebMD<\/a>, NY Mag<\/a>, BBC<\/a>, CBS News<\/a>, Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 11, 2016<\/span>
\nCoverage of our paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine<\/a> on electronic cigarette use in Medical Daily<\/a>, and other<\/a> outlets<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 15, 2016<\/span>
\nCoverage of our paper in American Psychologist<\/a> on youth violence in the media: Science Codex<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 29, 2015<\/span>
\nMedia coverage<\/a> of our work on forecasting the flu using multiple data sources.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 16, 2015<\/span>
\nTalk at Text as Data<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 25, 2015<\/span>
\nOur work on Reddit and suicide in the news<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 10, 2015<\/span>
\nTalk at the Symposium on Reimagining Health in Cities: New Directions in Urban Health Research, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 2015.<\/a>[Video available<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nJuly 27, 2015<\/span>
\nI'm quoted in a Washington Post story<\/a> on social media and health.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 27, 2015<\/span>
\nTalk at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJune 26, 2015<\/span>
\nOur work on social media and health, including coverage of multiple articles, was published on BuzzFeed.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nApril 1, 2015<\/span>
\nOur work on Twitter and vaccines was published on The Conversation.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMarch 30, 2015<\/span>
\nTalk at the NIH NIMHD Workshop on Science of Prevention and Health Promotion to Address Health Disparities.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMarch 8, 2015<\/span>
\nGlen Coppersmith<\/a> and I participated in an SPSM chat<\/a> on using Twitter to track mental health. [Video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nMarch 4, 2015<\/span>
\nOur work on Twitter and vaccines<\/a> is covered by NY Mag<\/a>, Business Standard<\/a>, MedicalXpress<\/a>, EurekAlert<\/a>, Healio<\/a>, and Lab Manager<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 7, 2015<\/span>
\nTwo talks at Columbia University.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 6, 2015<\/span>
\nTalk at Microsoft Research NYC.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJanuary 1, 2015<\/span>
\nI wrote an article entitled \"Mining 21st Century Chatter?\"<\/a> for the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 29, 2014<\/span>
\nOur paper \"What Are Health-Related Users Tweeting?\"<\/a> was in the top 10 most tweeted articles in JMIR for 2014.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nDecember 27, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on Twitter and mental health is covered by the New York Times<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 22, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on Twitter and mental health is covered by GigaOM<\/a> and The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 19, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on the flu featured on the NBC Nightly News [video<\/a>].<\/span>\n

\nDecember 17, 2014<\/span>
\nTalks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> on tobacco control and public health surveillance.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 16, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at the American Cancer Society<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 12, 2014<\/span>
\nThe Partially Derivative podcast<\/a> covered our mental health work.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 12, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on Twitter and mental health is covered by Fox News<\/a>, The Huffington Post<\/a>, The Washington Times<\/a>, redOrbit<\/a>, and Voice of America<\/a>,<\/span>\n

\nDecember 11, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on the flu in Fast Company<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 9, 2014<\/span>
\nI'm quoted in an article about hospital community engagement (Hospitals & Health Networks.)<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 9, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on flu in Healthcare Global<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 21, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on pollution in China is covered by CBS News<\/a>, Take Part<\/a>, and Yahoo<\/a><\/span>\n

\nNovember 13, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on mental health is covered in Newsweek<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 7, 2014<\/span>
\nI helped organize the Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Hackathon<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 30, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on flu forecasting is covered by Slate<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 2, 2014<\/span>
\nI'm quoted in a POLITICO article on Ebola response.<\/a><\/span>\n

\nAugust 24, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at the KDD Bloomberg workshop: \"Unleash Data: Accelerate Impact\"<\/a>. [Video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nAugust 22, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on mental health is mentioned by Fortune<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 21, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at the Influenza Prediction Workshop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 19, 2014<\/span>
\nOut work on mental health is covered by The Boston Globe<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 12, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on mental health is covered by Beta Boston<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJune 27, 2014<\/span>
\nI gave an invited talk at the Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMay 26, 2014<\/span>
\nI'm quoted in a BBC article on email<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMay 21, 2014<\/span>
\nI gave a keynote talk at the eHealth Initiative's National Forum on Data and Analytics<\/a><\/span>\n

\nApril 28, 2014<\/span>
\nOur new AJPM paper on Healthy Mondays has been covered by Bloomberg business week<\/a>, The Atlantic<\/a>, and Refinery29<\/a><\/span>\n

\nApril 11, 2014<\/span>
\nBloomberg news quotes me in an article on disease outbreaks in social media<\/a><\/span>\n

\nApril 10, 2014<\/span>
\nI was on the Osgood Files<\/a> talking about flu surveillance<\/span>\n

\nApril 5, 2014<\/span>
\nThe Times of London is covering our work on the economy and health<\/a> by doing their own analysis for the UK<\/a><\/span>\n

\nApril 1, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk on new technology for influenza surveillance at Preparedness Summit 2014<\/a><\/span>\n

\nMarch 24, 2014<\/span>
\nNew results on flu tracking for cities covered by The Washington Post<\/a>, The National Journal<\/a>, The Daily Mail<\/a>, and local CBS News (Video)<\/a>. The original press release is here<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 15, 2014<\/span>
\nOur work on flu tracking was on Weekend Edition Saturday<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 14, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at University of Michigan<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 13, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at Brigham Young University<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 12, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at Amazon's Machine Learning Group<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 11, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at Microsoft Research<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 10, 2014<\/span>
\nTalk at San Diego State School of Public Health<\/a><\/span>\n

\nFebruary 6, 2014<\/span>
\nThe new Twitter data grants program<\/a> is drawing attention to my work NBCNews.com<\/a><\/span>\n

\nJanuary 30, 2014<\/span>
\nWe hosted NACLO<\/a> at JHU as the largest site in North America.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 29, 2014<\/span>
\nI had a small role in contributing to the report on The Use of Social Media to Prevent Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Chronic Disease<\/a> by the eHealth Initiative<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 28, 2014<\/span>
\nMy co-author John Ayers<\/a> gave a TedX talk on our work<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 10, 2014<\/span>
\nMy work on public health effects of the great recession is featured in Huffington Post<\/a>, New York Times Blogs<\/a>, Daily Mail<\/a> and the JHU HUB<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 2, 2013<\/span>
\nTalk at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy<\/a><\/span>\n

\nOctober 20, 2013<\/span>
\nI was on WTOP radio on the National Academy of Engineering segment<\/a> talking about our work on tracking the flu with Twitter.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 11, 2013<\/span>
\nI will be on a panel at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL)<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 6, 2013<\/span>
\nTalk at Digital Surveillance Workshop at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 9, 2013<\/span>
\nMy work on mining drug forums was featured in the Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 30, 2013<\/span>
\nTalk at Workshop on Digital Epidemiology<\/a> at the ISI Foundation<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 22, 2013<\/span>
\nCPHIT<\/a> and my work were featured in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nApril 30, 2013<\/span>
\nTalk for the National Association of County and City Health Officials<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nApril 22, 2013<\/span>
\nTalk at Columbia in the IGERT From Data to Solutions<\/a> seminar.<\/span>\n

\nApril 22, 2013<\/span>
\nTalk at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 19, 2013<\/span>
\nI spoke at the Big Data in Public Health<\/a> conference.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 4, 2013<\/span>
\nOur work was featured in the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 28, 2013<\/span>
\nI spoke at the Social Media And Response Management Interface Event (SMARMIE)<\/a>. My talk and subsequent panel are online (starts at 3:39.)<\/a> I am also in the final panel.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 23, 2013<\/span>
\nDavid Broniatowski, my colleague in CAM in Emergency Medicine<\/a>, was on Sound Medicine talking about our work<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 22, 2013<\/span>
\nMidday with Dan Rodricks<\/a>. My segment starts around 25:00.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 20, 2013<\/span>
\nI was on the WYPR health minute [Here<\/a>] and [Here<\/a>].<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 14, 2013<\/span>
\nI co-authored the report Understanding and preventing youth violence<\/a> as part of the Subcommittee on Youth Violence of the Advisory Committee to the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate, National Science Foundation.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 13, 2013<\/span>
\nOur work is covered in a Nature News article<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 7, 2013<\/span>
\nTalk at Columbia in the Biomedical Informatics Department<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 30, 2013<\/span>
\nOur work on tracking influenza with Twitter received a lot of press<\/a>, including CNN<\/a>, MarketWatch TV<\/a> and Michigan Radio<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 18, 2013<\/span>
\nMy student Michael Paul has been awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 14, 2012<\/span>
\nTalk at Emory in the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QuanTM) Seminar Series<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 13, 2012<\/span>
\nTalk at Georgia Tech in the Robotics and Intelligent Machines Center (RIM) Seminar Series<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 20, 2012<\/span>
\nI will be the NAACL 2013<\/a> area chair for machine learning with Phil Blunsom.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 19, 2012<\/span>
\nI am helping to organize the second annual Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC 2012)<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 11, 2012<\/span>
\nI attended the CCC Computing and Healthcare Symposium<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMay 3, 2012<\/span>
\nTalk at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/span>\n

\nApril 30, 2012<\/span>
\nTalk at the University of Delaware.<\/span>\n

\nApril 1, 2012<\/span>
\nI am co-organizing a AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Text<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 29, 2012<\/span>
\nTalk at the Applied Physics Lab.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 12, 2012<\/span>
\nWork featured on Twitter Stories<\/a>. Excellent Video<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 11, 2012<\/span>
\nI am a panelist at SXSW<\/a>. Notes from an audience member<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nMarch 9, 2012<\/span>
\nTalk at University of Texas- Dallas<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 16, 2012<\/span>
\nI am a panelist at the Conference of Digital Disease Detection<\/a>. A video of my talk is available online<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 2, 2012<\/span>
\nWe hosted NACLO<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 1, 2012<\/span>
\nI am teaching Current Topics in Machine Learning (600.775) in the Spring of 2012. [Class site<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 30, 2012<\/span>
\nTalk at the NIH Opportunities in Data Visualization and Visual Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nDecember 7, 2011<\/span>
\nTalk at JHU's BioStats Seminar.<\/span>\n

\nNovember 15, 2011<\/span>
\nTalk at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/span>\n

\nOctober 28, 2011<\/span>
\nTalk at Mass General Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 23, 2011<\/span>
\nWe are hosting 140 people at the first Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 12, 2011<\/span>
\nMy student Ariya Rastrow<\/a> was awarded the inaugural Frederick Jelinek Fellowship.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 1, 2011<\/span>
\nA feature on our Twitter+Health work in The Johns Hopkins Magazine<\/a>.<\/span>\n

\nSeptember 1, 2011<\/span>
\nI will be the ACL 2012<\/a> area chair for machine learning with Trevor Cohn.<\/span>\n

\nAugust 15, 2011<\/span>
\nI am teaching Machine Learning (600.475) in the Fall of 2011. [Class site<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nAugust 10, 2011<\/span>
\nI was on NPR. What fun! Midday with Dan Rodricks [Audio<\/a>]. Also, see the WYPR health minute [Here<\/a>] and [Here<\/a>].<\/span>\n

\nJuly 16, 2011<\/span>
\nOur health mining research received some press coverage: great articles by The Atlantic<\/a> and NPR<\/a>; also see CBS News<\/a>, Wall Street Journal (blog)<\/a>, Huffington Post<\/a>, BBC<\/a>, GigaOM<\/a>. We've also been on TV! WJLA<\/a> and PressHereTV<\/a>.
6\/30\/2011<\/span> Talk at the CLSP summer school. [Video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nJune 2, 2011<\/span>
\nCongratulations to Carolina Parada, who successfully defended her thesis! She is off to Google Research.<\/span>\n

\nMay 23, 2011<\/span>
\nGiving a talk at the Applied Physics Lab on entity disambiguation.<\/span>\n

\nApril 29, 2011<\/span>
\nGiving a talk at Health Informatics Seminar. [Video<\/a>]<\/span>\n

\nFebruary 3, 2011<\/span>
\nWe served as one of the largest NACLO<\/a> host sites.<\/span>\n

\nJanuary 30, 2011<\/span>
\nI am teaching a new seminar on Machine Learning.<\/span>\n

\nJuly 1, 2010<\/span>
\nI organized a workshop on Amazon Mechanical Turk at NAACL 2010. All of the data is available: Check it out.<\/a> We received some press coverage<\/a> on the workshop.<\/span>\n

\nJune 15, 2010<\/span>
\nMy student Carolina Parada was awarded the 2010 Google Graduate Fellowship in Speech.<\/span>\n

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