About me

I’m a Research Scientist at the Institute of Experiential AI in the Responsible AI group and a Honorary Faculty at the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University. Before joining EAI I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manchester in the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), where I worked on NLP for mental health and Named Entity Recognition for both textual social media data as well as health science. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hull (UK) and as a graduate student she has worked on (i) accurate classification of sentiment / emotion in textual social media data and (ii) detecting suicide notes / suicidal ideation in textual data using my deep learning, machine learning and linguistics knowledge.

My current work is expanding on existing research, where I investigate (i) how social, economic, political and physical factors are driving factors behind health inequalities using NLP, (ii) automatic extraction of emotions and sentiment from mental health data and (iii) the responsible use and deployment of AI in mental health settings. More specifically, I focus on social determinants of mental health using NLP and their impact on onset and progression of mental health conditions and suicidal ideation.

Interests

• NLP for Mental Health
• Sentiment Analysis
• Social Media
• Ethics in NLP for Mental Health