CHARLES ALBA
- PhD Student in Computational & Data Sciences @ Washington University in St Louis
- ‘Young’ Fellow @ National University of Singapore (NUS)
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About:
I am a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate in the Computational and Data Sciences program at Washington University in St. Louis.
My primary research interests focus on the applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in public health and the social sciences.
I previously completed my Masters in Behavioral & Data Science at the University at Warwick and my Bachelors Degree in Data Science at Penn State University.
I have been awarded the NUS Development Grant, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Travel Grant, and the Penn State Remote Innovation Grant, among others, in recognition of my research.
You can find more information about me in my CV.
Research Interests:
My primary research interests includes:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in public health
- Computational Social Science / AI in Social Science
- 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