Alec Chapman
Data Scientist
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlec Chapman is a data scientist and incoming PhD student in Biostatistics at the University of Utah with nine years of experience applying NLP and machine learning to healthcare and population health research. At the University of Utah he builds clinical NLP and ML systems for VA-focused projects—ranging from COVID-19 surveillance to homelessness and infectious disease misdiagnosis—translating messy clinical data into actionable insights. He holds a Master’s in Biomedical Informatics and has commercial experience as an informatics engineer and consultant, pairing production-minded software engineering with rigorous research. Alec also teaches health informatics, and his earlier background in music performance hints at strong communication and instructional skills that help him bridge technical and clinical teams.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBachelor of Music, Music Performance, Bachelor of Music, Music Performance at Duquesne University
English, German
Stackoverflow
79reputation
2kreached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (45)
artificial-intelligence10
named-entity-recognition10
python10
arabic-nlp10
data-science10
machine-learning10
entity-linking10
industrial10
text-classification10
language-processing10
data-preprocessing10
deep-learning10
spacy10
neural10
ai10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
medspacy/sectionizer
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
A rule-based Python module for spitting documents into sections.
Contributions:1 release, 42 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
sectionspythonpdfrulerule-based
abchapman93/cycontext_old
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
A Python implementation of the ConText algorithm for clinical text concept assertion using the spaCy framework
Contributions:117 commits, 22 PRs, 26 pushes in 10 months
nlppythonclinicalpython-implementationspacy
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.