Silvio Amir
Silvio Amir
Silvio Amir
Silvio Amir
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Research Interests
- Natural language processing
- Machine learning
- Information retrieval
- Social media analysis
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University
- PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal
- MS in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal
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Biography
Silvio Amir is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. His research develops Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval methods for personal and user generated text, such as social media and clinical notes from Electronic Health Records. Amir is primarily interested in methods for tasks involving subjective, personalized or user-level inferences (e.g. opinion mining and digital phenotyping). In particular, his work aims to improve the reliability, interpretability and fairness of predictive models and analytics derived from personal and user generated data. His 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, he often collaborates with domain experts in multidisciplinary projects to address real-world problems in the social sciences, medicine and epidemiology.
Amir earned his doctorate from the University of Lisbon, conducting part of his doctoral research as a visiting researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and at Northeastern University in Boston. He then moved to John Hopkins University, where he completed his postdoctoral research in the Center for Language and Speech Processing and served as a lecturer at the Whiting School of Engineering.
Bio coming soon!
Bio coming soon!
Research Interests
- Natural language processing
- Machine learning
- Information retrieval
- Social media analysis
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University
- PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal
- MS in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal
Pronouns
he/him/his
Biography
Silvio Amir is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. His research develops Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval methods for personal and user generated text, such as social media and clinical notes from Electronic Health Records. Amir is primarily interested in methods for tasks involving subjective, personalized or user-level inferences (e.g. opinion mining and digital phenotyping). In particular, his work aims to improve the reliability, interpretability and fairness of predictive models and analytics derived from personal and user generated data. His 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, he often collaborates with domain experts in multidisciplinary projects to address real-world problems in the social sciences, medicine and epidemiology.
Amir earned his doctorate from the University of Lisbon, conducting part of his doctoral research as a visiting researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and at Northeastern University in Boston. He then moved to John Hopkins University, where he completed his postdoctoral research in the Center for Language and Speech Processing and served as a lecturer at the Whiting School of Engineering.
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Boston, MA 02115
617.373.2462
TTY: 617.373.3768
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