Experience

Advent Health Partners

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Scientist

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  • Keras machine learning (ML) tools for text classification • Natural Language Processing (NLP) of medical records • Implementing ML and NLP in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment

• Machine Learning Engineer

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

  • Keras machine learning (ML) tools for text classification• Natural Language Processing (NLP) of medical records• Implementing ML and NLP in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment



Western Kentucky University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Aug 2006 - Present

  ● Analyzing the linguistic properties of online language usage. ● Inferring demographic characteristics from linguistic patterns. ● Analyzing large linguistic datasets with WKU's 128 8-core node clusters (http://hpc.wku.edu/) ● Teaching Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Sexuality, and Behavioral Neuroscience ● Analyzing the linguistic properties of online language usage. ● Inferring demographic characteristics from linguistic patterns. ● Analyzing large linguistic datasets with WKU's 128 8-core node clusters (http://hpc.wku.edu/) ● Teaching Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Sexuality, and Behavioral Neuroscience



Center for Human Genetic Research, Vanderbilt University

• Programmer Analyst

  • Jan 2000 - Jul 2006

  ● Design and create genome-wide analyses using machine-learning methods to identify disease genotypes. ● Computational methods included machine learning algorithms (e.g, genetic algorithms) as well as exhaustive methods on Vanderbilt's high performance computing resources (http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/) ● Design and create genome-wide analyses using machine-learning methods to identify disease genotypes. ● Computational methods included machine learning algorithms (e.g, genetic algorithms) as well as exhaustive methods on Vanderbilt's high performance computing resources (http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/)


Pennsylvania State University
• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Assistant Professor

  • 1996 - 1999