Hani Safadi
Associate Professor
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolHani Safadi is an associate professor at the University of Georgia with 11 years of academic and research experience studying how online communities, social media, and health IT reshape collaboration and medical practice. He blends mixed-methods scholarship with computational linguistics, network analysis, NLP and information visualization to analyze large-scale qualitative data and digital social movements. His work spans open innovation and open-source health IT, including research collaborations with clinical partners like the Mayo Clinic that bridge technical and clinical domains. Trained as a computer scientist (MSc) and MIS PhD from McGill, he also co-founded a startup that harvested parallel web corpora—an early practical thread connecting his interests in language technologies and applied health informatics.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Engineering, BEng, Computer Engineering at Damascus UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Management Information Systems, General, GPA 3.92/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Management Information Systems, General, GPA 3.92/4.0 at McGill University
English, French, German, Arabic
Github Skills (52)
docker-image10
vmware9
text-analysis9
docker9
text-mining9
textual8
markov8
visualizations7
matplotlib7
data-formats7
json7
container7
visualization7
bitnami7
open-data7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hanisaf/odin-front
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
The Open Data Innovation Project (ODIN) project seeks to make textual data repositories useable rather than simply available by processing and visualizing text data for human sensemaking.
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 47 pushes in 2 years 9 months
repositoriestext-dataopen-datavisualizingtextual
hanisaf/advanced-data-management-and-analytics-spring2021
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Source code repo for in-class source code and students' package expos
Contributions:1 review, 83 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
pythonin-class
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