Our Team
Alphabetical Order by Last Name
Team Members

Mohammed Ali
AI-Garadi
Postdoctoral Scholar
Interest:
Sports, Science
Expertise:
NLP, Social Media,
Surveilliance Methods

Nimita Deshpande
Undergraduate Intern
Interest:
Music, Dance

Yao Ge
PhD Student
Expertise:
BioNLP (NER)

Yuting Guo
PhD Student
Interest:
Programming, Anime
Expertise:
NLP, Deep Learning

Whitney Bremer
Project Manager/
Software Engineer
Interest:
Mobile App Development,
Clinical Informatics
Expertise:
iOS Development,
Program Management,
Project Management

Sahithi Lakamana
Systems Software Engineer
Interest:
Data Visualization, Data
Classification, Coding,
Art and Crafts
Expertise:
Python and Data
Visualization

Ruqi Liao
Undergraduate Student
Interest:
Reading, Traveling

Abeed Sarker
Principal Investigator
Interest:
Programming, Sports, Music,
Literature, Gaming, Big Data, AI
Expertise:
NLP, Applied Machine Learning,
Social Media Mining,
Patient-centered Data Science

Drew Walker
PhD Rotation Student
Interest:
Language and Bias,
NLP, Data Science,
Skateboarding, Surfing,
Gaming, Music
Expertise:
Adolescent/Young Adult Palliative Care,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Program Implementation and Evaluation

Joni Leigh-Webster
PhD Rotation Student
Interest:
Social media,
Health, Inequality,
Race and Racism,
Mental Health

Yuan-Chi Yang
Postdoctoral Scholar
Interest:
Machine Learning, Natural
Language Processing, Data
Science, Quantum
Computation, Physics

Beak Beak
Professor of Screaming
Interest:
Screaming, Chewing Paper
Expertise:
Running Over Keyboards,
Disrupting Meetings

Oreo
Professor of Cleaning
Interest:
Cleaning, Recharging, Getting Stuck
Expertise:
Inefficient Graph Traversal,
Random Walk
Collaborators

Jeanmarie Perrone
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Expertise:
Opioid Stewardship,
Emergency Medicine,
Medical Toxicology, Addiction Medicine

Imon Banerjee
Lead AI Scientist
Mayo Clinic
Expertise:
NLP, Computer Vision,
Biomedical Data Mining and Predictive Modeling

Hannah Cooper
Professor
Emory University
Expertise:
Addiction/Substance Abuse,
Behavior and Health, Health Disparities,
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Social Epidemiology

Michael Goodman
Professor
Emory University
Expertise:
Public Health, Cancer Epidemiology
Cancer Risk Evaluation

David T. Grande
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Expertise: Health Policy, Medical Professionalism,
Influences of Marketing, Urban Health

Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Expertise:
Biomedical Informatics, NLP,
Social Media Mining

Sangmi Kim
Assistant Professor
Emory University
Expertise:
Data Science, Health Disparities,
Public Health Nursing,
Vulnerable Populations,
Women's Health

Jennifer Love
NIH Research Fellow
Mount Sinai
Expertise:
Emergency Medicine

Diego Molla-Aliod
Senior Lecturer
Macquarie University
Expertise:
NLP, Information Extraction,
Text-based Question Answering,
Text Summarisation

Cecile Paris
Chief Research Scientist
Data61
Expertise:
NLP, Artificial Intelligence,
Social Media Analytics

Anthony Spadaro
Associate Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Expertise:
Epidemiology, Health Equity,
Policy, Qualitative Methods,
Social Determinants of Health,
Substance Abuse

Davy Weissenbacher
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Pennsylvania
Expertise:
NLP, Biomedical Informatics,
Machine Learning

Jane M. Zhu
Assistant Professor
Oregon Health and Sciencs University
Expertise:
Internal Medicine, Health Care Markets,
Provider Behavior and Incentives
Alumni

Xiangjue Dong
Graduate Research Assistant
Interest:
Piano, Long-distance running,
Sports
Expertise:
NLP, AI

Abimbola Leslie
Graduate Research Assistant
Interest:
Movies, Music, Traveling
Expertise:
Public Health

Botao Li
Graduate Research Assistant
Interest:
Movies, Music, Traveling
Expertise:
Public Health

Sabrina Li
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Demi Majekodunmi
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Wesley Siu
Graduate Research Assistant

Angle Xie
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Interest:
Tennis, Music,
Artificial Intelligence
Expertise:
Data Analytics, Programming,
NLP