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

Contact details and socials:

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:

  1. Utilizing NLP and text mining tools on digital data to address food insecurity.
  2. Developing large language models (LLMs) and LLM-powered tools in public health and clinical care.
  3. 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