Mark Dredze
Director at The Johns Hopkins University Data Science and AI Institute
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMark Dredze is a seasoned academic leader and Director of the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute with 13 years of experience building statistical language models applied to social media analysis, public health, and clinical informatics. A John C. Malone Associate Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, he blends rigorous research with operational impact, advising industry as a long-term visiting researcher at Bloomberg. His work focuses on turning noisy, real-world text into actionable insights for population-level health and policy, often bridging machine learning, ethics, and deployment challenges. Trained with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a background spanning research faculty roles since 2009, he pairs deep technical expertise with sustained leadership in multidisciplinary teams. Based in Rockville, Maryland, he is known for practical, high-impact research that moves beyond models to measurable societal outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Master of Arts - MA at Yeshiva UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (25)
twitter-streaming-api10
twitter-api10
twitter9
api8
streaming-api8
geolocation8
entity7
python7
active-learning7
streaming7
nlp6
cpp6
social-media6
machine-learning6
datasets6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mdredze/carmen
Apr 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 7 months
mdredze/twitter_stream_downloader
Sep 2013 - Apr 2020
A simple Python script to download tweets from the Twitter streaming API. Works with API version 1.1.
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years 7 months
twitter-botapipythontwitter-streamingstreaming-api
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