Modeling human behavior during disruptions caused by hurricanes
Role: Graduate Research Assistant (March 2018- December 2019)
The CRISP project is a collaborative effort by researchers to understand the interplay of human behavior and power and transportation infrastructures in disruptions during natural disasters. My responsibilities are to:
-Extract, clean and pre-process tweets that a part of hurricane Sandy, Harvey, Isaac and Irma.
-Predict geo-location of collection of tweets.
-Identify tweets that talk specifically about power outage, infrastructure damage and transport disruptions.
-Build abstractive summaries of what people are tweeting about during hurricanes.
Role: Graduate Research Assistant (March 2018- December 2019)
The CRISP project is a collaborative effort by researchers to understand the interplay of human behavior and power and transportation infrastructures in disruptions during natural disasters. My responsibilities are to:
-Extract, clean and pre-process tweets that a part of hurricane Sandy, Harvey, Isaac and Irma.
-Predict geo-location of collection of tweets.
-Identify tweets that talk specifically about power outage, infrastructure damage and transport disruptions.
-Build abstractive summaries of what people are tweeting about during hurricanes.
Social Interactome
Role: Graduate Research Assistant (2015 - 2018)
The Social Interactome is a research project by the International Quit & Recovery Registry that examines how social networks can be used to help people in recovery from substance addiction. The International Quit & Recovery Registry is part of the Addiction Recovery Research Center at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. The principal investigators of this project is Dr. Warren Bickel, Director of the Addiction Recovery Research Center and Dr. Edward A. Fox, Professor at the Computer Science Department at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health (Grant 1R01DA039456-01).
Role: Graduate Research Assistant (2015 - 2018)
The Social Interactome is a research project by the International Quit & Recovery Registry that examines how social networks can be used to help people in recovery from substance addiction. The International Quit & Recovery Registry is part of the Addiction Recovery Research Center at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. The principal investigators of this project is Dr. Warren Bickel, Director of the Addiction Recovery Research Center and Dr. Edward A. Fox, Professor at the Computer Science Department at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health (Grant 1R01DA039456-01).