Our Team

Team Members

Abeed Sarker

Principal Investigator

Interest: Literature, Gaming, Big Data, AI

Expertise: Patient-centered Data Science

Beak Beak
Professor of Screaming

Interest: Screaming, Chewing Paper

Expertise: Disrupting Meetings

Drew Walker
PhD Rotation Student

Interest: Gaming, Music

Expertise: Program Implementation and Evaluation

Joni Leigh-Webster
PhD Rotation Student

Interest: Mental Health

Oolong
Atmosphere Maker

Interest: Sleep, Run, Play

Expertise: Chase, Get up early, Grow up so fast

Oreo
Professor of Cleaning

Interest: Cleaning, Recharging, Getting Stuck

Expertise: Random Walk

Sahithi Lakamana
Systems Software Engineer

Interest: Art and Crafts

Expertise: Visualization

Whitney Bremer
Project Manager/
Software Engineer

Interest: Clinical Informatics

Expertise: Project Management

Yao Ge
PhD Student

Expertise: BioNLP (NER)

Yuting Guo
PhD Student

Interest: Programming, Anime

Expertise: NLP, Deep Learning

Collaborators

Jeanmarie Perrone
Professor
University of Pennsylvania

Expertise: Medical Toxicology, Addiction Medicine

Imon Banerjee
Lead AI Scientist
Mayo Clinic

Expertise: Biomedical Data Mining and Predictive Modeling

Hannah Cooper
Professor
Emory University

Expertise: HIV/AIDS Prevention, Social Epidemiology

Michael Goodman
Professor
Emory University

Expertise: Cancer Risk Evaluation

Mohammed Ali AI-Garadi
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Interest: Sports, Science

Expertise: Surveilliance Methods

David T. Grande
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania

Expertise: Influences of Marketing, Urban Health

Graciela Gonzalez Hernandez
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania

Expertise: Social Media Mining

Sangmi Kim
Assistant Professor
Emory University

Expertise: Women's Health

Jennifer Love
NIH Research Fellow
Mount Sinai

Expertise: Emergency Medicine

Diego Molla-Aliod
Senior Lecturer
Macquarie University

Expertise: Text Summarisation

Cecile Paris
Chief Research Scientist
Data61

Expertise: Social Media Analytics

Anthony Spadaro
Associate Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

Expertise: Substance Abuse

Davy Weissenbacher
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Pennsylvania

Expertise: Machine Learning

Jane M. Zhu
Assistant Professor
Oregon Health and Sciencs University

Expertise: Provider Behavior and Incentives

Alumni

Abimbola Leslie
Graduate Research Assistant

Interest: Movies, Music, Traveling

Expertise: Public Health

Botao Li
Graduate Research Assistant

Interest: Movies, Music, Traveling

Expertise: Public Health

Demi Majekodunmi
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Nimita Deshpande
Undergraduate Intern

Interest: Music, Dance

Ruqi Liao
Undergraduate Student

Interest: Reading, Traveling

Sabrina Li
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Wesley Siu
Graduate Research Assistant

Xiangjue Dong
Graduate Research Assistant

Interest: Sports

Expertise: NLP, AI

Yuan-Chi Yang
Postdoctoral Scholar

Interest: Computation, Physics