Silvio Amir

I am an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. I am also a core faculty member of the Institute for Experiential AI and of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University.

Research Interests

I work on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods to analyze personal and user generated text, such as social media and clinical notes from Electronic Health Records. I am primarily interested in tasks involving subjective, personalized or user-level inferences (e.g. opinion mining and digital phenotyping). In particular, my work aims to improve the reliability, interpretability and fairness of predictive models and analytics derived from these data.

More broadly, my research is part of ongoing efforts to develop Human-centered AI (i.e. to empower rather than replace humans) and AI for Social Good (i.e. to tackle meaningful social, societal and humanitarian challenges). To achieve these goals, I often collaborate with domain experts in multidisciplinary projects to address real-world problems in the social sciences, medicine and epidemiology.

📌   Announcements

I will be teaching DS2000: Programming with Data in Fall 2023