CHARLES ALBA
- PhD Student in Computational & Data Sciences @ Washington University in St Louis
- ‘Young’ Fellow @ National University of Singapore (NUS)
- Adjunct Instructor @ Brown School of Washington University in St Louis
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Research Interests:
My primary research interests includes:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in public health
- Applied Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Mining
- Big data in Public Health
Some of my recent research works include:
- Utilizing NLP and text mining tools on digital data to address food insecurity.
- Developing large language models (LLMs) and LLM-powered tools in public health and clinical care.
- Utilizing novel big data sources (e.g., mobile phone data) to inform equitable health policy decisions.
You can view my research works at my publications page.
As an applied data scientist, I actively build, develop and publish open-source software packages on PyPi or trained language models on 🤗 Huggingface.
Education:
- PhD in Computational & Data Sciences @ Washington University in St Louis, 2022 – present
- MS (Distinction) in Behavioral & Data Science @ University of Warwick (UK), 2021 – 2022
- BS in Data Science @ Penn State University, 2018 – 2021