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Andrew Schwartz
H. Andrew Schwartz
Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Room 255
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424

Phone: 
(631) 632-2459
Website (URL): 
http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~has/
Email: 
Andrew.Schwartz@cs.stonybrook.edu

Interests

Large and scalable language analyses for psychological and health discovery; computational social science; natural language processing; lexical semantics; social media big data; human demography, personality, and mental well-being

Biography

Andrew Schwartz received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida in 2011 with research on acquiring lexical semantic knowledge from the Web. He then joined the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and later Visiting Assistant Professor in Computer & Information Science. He is Lead Research Scientist for the World Well-Being Project, a multidisciplinary group of Computer Scientists and Psychologists studying physical and psychological well-being based on language in social media.

Research

Utilizing natural language processing and machine learning techniques, Andrew's research focuses on large scale language analysis for health and social sciences. His current projects include include predicting and characterizing mental and physical health from one's language in social media, automatic lexicon refinement, measuring human temporal orientation and optimism, passive crowd-sourcing through apps, and algorithms for data-driven discovery of human insights.

Awards

Almetric top 25 most talked about research papers in 2013 for "Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach"