Abeed Sarker

Natural Language Processing | Machine Learning | Biomedical Informatics | Health

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[October, 2019]: I gave a talk at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University on how social media can be used for public health research. TBA slides.
[September, 2019]: I gave a talk at the CS Department of Emory. Happy to be officially associated with CS. See listing here.
[August, 2019]: I presented our work on geolocation-centric social media based opioid surveillance @ MedInfo-2019 slides here.
[July, 2019]: I served as a reviewer in the NIH Special Emphasis Panel meeting (ZRG1 HDM K 11) on July 1st.
[June, 2019]: I finally joined Emory University -- Department of Biomedical Informatics @ the School of Medicine... updates coming soon.
[April, 2019]: I presented our work on social media mining for monitoring prescription medication abuse at the CHOP Sprint Speaker Series Seminars.
[April, 2019]: We presented two posters focusing on our suboxone + social media research funded by NIDA at the ACMT Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 in San Francisco.
[March, 2019]: I presented our work with the National Board of Medical Examiners at the HLP monthly meeting. Slides available here.
[February, 2019]: I will be joining the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory School of Medicine later on in the year.
[December, 2018]: I did a co-presentation with my collaborator Dr. Jeanmarie Perrone at Penn psychiatry.
[September, 2018]: I taught a guest lecture for the course titled "Data Science for Biomedical Informatics" at UPenn.
[July, 2018]: I presented at the HLP monthly seminar (again) on my work on automatic text summarization for evidence based medicine (will try to put up slides at some point).
[May, 2018]: I ran a workshop for my non-tech colleagues on introductory text classification using python. Notes are available here.
[May, 2018]: I presented our research on using NLP for aiding medical exam assessment at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Slides will be made available following authorization by the board.
[January, 2018]: I presented at the first NLP for Health Monthly Meeting at UPenn. Slides for the entire meeting are available here
[November, 2017]: November is here. See you at the SMM4H workshop @ AMIA 2017. Find the program here
[September, 2017]: I presented at the Research In Progress (RIP) seminar at the UPenn Emergency Medicine Department. Partial presentation is available here
[August, 2017]: We released new datasets for the social media mining shared task @ AMIA 2017 Details: here
[May, 2017]: I am (unofficially) taking a course on epidemiology on Coursera!
[April, 2017]: I am organizing a shared task at AMIA2017. Details: here
[March, 2017]: I presented at the CLUNCH seminar at the University of Pennsylvania on social media mining. Slides here
[March, 2017]: Our proposed session on NLP for Precision Medicine was accepted for PSB2018. Papers are due August 1st  

[December, 2016]: I am attending COLING and presenting about our tools and resources at BioTxtM. Presentation is available here.
[September, 2016]: I joined the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania to continue my research in health language processing. 
[June, 2016]: I organized a workshop to teach basic text classification to students from non-programming backgrounds at ASU-BMI. Notes are available here.
[April, 2016]: Interesting discussion on The Parallax about our work.[March, 2016]: Our work on social media mining for toxicovigilance is covered in Psychiatryadvisor.
[February, 2016]: I am teaching the first half of BMI 211: Modeling Biomedical Decisions.
[January, 2016]: I gave an invited talk titled Social Media Mining for Pharmacovigilance-- progress and challenges at the Pacific Biocomputing Symposium, 2016. Proceedings for the symposium are available here. The (draft) slides are available here.
[January, 2016]: I hosted the PSB Shared Task Workshop. Proceedings available here.

[October, 2015]: I presented an overview of our work titled 'Social media mining for public health' at the Maricopa Department of Public Health. The (draft) slides are available here: http://diego.asu.edu/asarker/maricopa_county_presentation.pdf
[October, 2015]: We've received a set of very interesting systems for our social media mining shared task. Program and task descriptions are available here .
[August, 2015]: Our paper Utilizing social media data for pharmacovigilance: A review got nominated for Atlas!
[June, 2015]: I am organizing the shared task on social media mining for pharmacovigilance: http://psb.stanford.edu/previous/psb16/workshop/wkshp-smm/

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