Benjamin Ricard

LinkedInThesis lab


HOMETOWN
Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

LANGUAGES
English

THESIS MENTOR
Dr. Saeed Hassanpour

GRADUATE INSTITUTION
Texas State University
Master of Science in Biochemistry

UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION
Texas State University
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry

DARTMOUTH QBS PROFILE

THESIS TITLE
Deep learning models of social media and online communication data for developing machine understanding models

CAREER TRACK(S)
Academia, Industry

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Python, R

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Member of Thayer Consulting Club

 


QBS PhD Experience

Electives

Publications
PubMed
Poster Presentations

Oral Presentations


My Interests

"I am interested in leveraging publicly available social media for improving performance on text and image based classification. We use deep learning to represent text and image posts and uncover latent information."

Why QBS?

"QBS offers us a multidisciplinary environment to expand our perspective for studying biomedical sciences. Students are trained to be thinkers and creative problem-solvers."

FAVORITE QBS CLASS
QBS 108: Applied Machine Learning

Life @ Dartmouth

WHEN I AM NOT IN LAB
"I am with my cats and hiking (when I can)."

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