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Silvio Amir

Assistant Professor · College of Computer Sciences

Northeastern University · United States
Natural language processingMachine learningInformation retrievalSocial media analysis

About

Silvio Amir is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is a core faculty member in Northeastern's Institute for Experiential AI and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Amir's 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. He is primarily interested in methods for tasks involving subjective, personalized or user-level inferences (e.g. opinion mining and digital phenotyping). Through his work, Amir aims to improve the reliability, interpretability, and fairness of predictive models and analytics derived from personal and user-generated data — all part of

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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