Adam Poliak
Department/Subdepartment
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Focus
Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Text as Data, Machine Learning
Biography
Adam is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Â鶹AV. He was previously a Roman Family Teaching and Research Fellow in at where he was affiliated with the . I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, where I was affiliated with the and advised by .
My research interests include natural language processing and computational social science. In particular, I study the reasoning capabilities and biases in natural language processing models. I also apply natural language processing to other fields to glean insights from large amounts of text. Most recently, I have been applying NLP techniques to open problems in public health and social sciences.