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| Jun 2024 | Our project on the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Substance Abuse Treatments with Alexandros Koliousis and led by Annika Schoene got seed funding from EAI |
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| Apr 2024 | Hiba’s paper Retrieving Evidence from EHRs with LLMs: Possibilities and Challenges with Jered and folks from BWH has been accepted at CHIL 2024 |
| Apr 2024 | I will be talking about Generative AI for health with Malihe Alikhani for the grantees of the Bristol Meyers Squibb Foundation |
| Apr 2024 | Monica’s paper On-the-fly Definition Augmentation of LLMs for Biomedical NER in collaboration with AI2 has been accepted for publication at NAACL 2024 |
| Mar 2024 | I will be giving an invited talk at Duke CS Colloquium on April 8th |
| Jul 2023 | Somin’s paper (with Jay de Young and Ben Nye) Jointly Extracting Interventions, Outcomes, and Findings from RCT Reports with LLMs was accepted for publication at MLHC 2023 |
| Jun 2023 | Hiba is giving a lightning talk about her (negative) results On the difficulty of disentangling race in representations of clinical notes at CHIL 2023 I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better track |
| May 2023 | Somin’s paper Revisiting Relation Extraction in the era of Large Language Models was accepted for publication at ACL 2023 |
| Feb 2023 | Somin’s paper RedHOT: A Corpus of Annotated Medical Questions, Experiences, and Claims on Social Media was accepted for publication at EACL 2023 (Findings) |
| Jan 2023 | Hiba Ahsan is joining our group (co-advised with Byron Wallace) |
| Nov 2022 | We are organizing a SemEval shared task on Medical Causal Claim Identification and PIO Frame Extraction from Reddit posts (with Vivek Khetan). Submissions accepted through 1/31/2023. See the website for details |
| Oct 2022 | Checkout Somin’s preprint RedHOT: A Corpus of Annotated Medical Questions, Experiences, and Claims on Social Media (with Vivek Khetan) |
| Sep 2022 | Friday 9/9, I will be at Tapia Conference 2022 talking in a panel about Making Software that Makes a Difference: How to make equitable products |
| Aug 2022 | I joined the AI Ethics Advisory Board at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University. Read an article about the new advisory board here. |
| Apr 2022 | Our TIER 1 grant proposal Discovering Digital Allies and Influential Actors in Online Social Movements with Yakov Bart and Brooke Foucault Welles was approved for funding. |
| Apr 2022 | I am chairing the keynote session and the paper presentation session at the UserNLP workshop at The Web Conference 2022 |
| Apr 2022 | Can We Trust AI?.) I participated on a panel on trustworthy and responsible AI at the inaugural event of the Institute for Experiential AI with Cansu Canca, Rayid Ghani, Lorena Jaume-PalasĂ, moderated by Ricardo Baeza-Yates. |
| Apr 2022 | The Institute for Experiential AI Paves the Way Toward Eliminating AI Biases |
| Feb 2022 | I was featured as a panelist on the first event of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging (DEIAB) Speaker Series at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences: Why I Belong in CS |
| Dec 2021 | Best Rapid-Fire Presentation at PRISM 2021 |
| Nov 2021 | I am co-organizing UserNLP: User-centered Natural Language Processing Workshop (co-located with the WebConf 2022), the first workshop dedicated to the challenges of building user-centered NLP models, going beyond modeling individual documents, and enhancing model personalization. |
| Nov 2021 | We secured seed funding from NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks for a pilot project with Yakov Bart on Characterizing the Impact of Influential Actors on the Dynamics of #MeToo Online Social Movement |
| Sep 2021 | I joined the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University as a core faculty member. |
| Aug 2021 | I joined the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University as a core faculty member. |
| Jul 2021 | Our paper Early Detection of Online Hate Speech Spreaders with Learned User Representations with Darius Irani and Avyakta Wrat will appear on the CLEF 2021 Labs Working Notes |
| Apr 2021 | I hired my first two PhD students: Monica Munnangi and Somin Wadhwa (both co-advised with Byron Wallace) |
| Mar 2021 | Our paper On the Impact of Random Seeds on the Fairness of Clinical Classifiers with Jan-Willem van de Meent and Byron Wallace was accepted for publication at NAACL 2021 |
| Jan 2021 |
I was hired as an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University 
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| Nov 2015 | A long announcement with details |