Talks

Conference talks & invited lectures.

Conference proceedings talk Nov 13, 2024

Enhancing target trial emulation with nature language processing: a case study of corticosteroids for sepsis patients in critical care

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium 2024

San Francisco, United States

Presented some work at AMIA 2024. Here is my talk!

Conference proceedings talk Jul 8, 2024

FEMI: A Foundation Model for Embryology Trained on Time-lapse Images

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology 2024

Amsterdam, Netherlands

We presented at ESHRE 2024. Here is my talk!

Podcast Nov 2, 2023

STEM From Podcast, Where does your journey STEM from?

STEM From Podcast

I was on the STEM From podcast with Dr. Carina Minardi. Check it out here.

Conference proceedings talk Jun 30, 2023

Predicting Embryo Ploidy Status Using Time-lapse Images

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology 2023

Copenhagen, Denmark

Here is my talk!

More information here

Guest Lecture Feb 5, 2023

Federated Learning and Data Heterogeneity

Cornell Tech

New York City, NY

Watch the recording here!

Symposium talk Apr 1, 2022

Methods and Results for Models Developed to Score Student Responses Using BERT

National Assessment of Educational Progress Colloquium

Virtual

More information here

This brief describes the results of a data challenge to evaluate the potential of using automated scoring techniques to score open-ended responses to reading assessment items. The purpose of the challenge was to help NAEP determine the existing capabilities, accuracy metrics, the underlying validity evidence of assigned scores, and costs and efficiencies of using automated scoring.

Talk Dec 3, 2021

Intro to Machine Learning

Science Marvels

New York City, NY

Here is a link to the talk.

Symposium talk Nov 29, 2021

Predicting criminal recidivism using specialized feature engineering and XGBoost

National Institute of Justice Symposium

Virtual

The National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) “Recidivism Forecasting Challenge” (the Challenge) aims to increase public safety and improve the fair administration of justice across the United States.

Conference proceedings talk May 30, 2020

Extracting Smoking Status from Electronic Health Records Using NLP and Deep Learning

AMIA Jt Summits Translational Sci Proc

Virtual

Conference proceedings talk Apr 19, 2019

Effect of Flow Regime on Snowflake Yeast Evolution

South Eastern Regional Yeast Meeting (SERYM)

Atlanta, Georgia

Here is a link to the poster.