{"id":2809,"date":"2019-04-17T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/?page_id=2809"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:43:51","slug":"bricard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/people\/bricard\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Ricard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3127 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402-110x55.jpg 110w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402-1600x800.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402-800x400.jpg 800w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2019\/04\/P1010323-e1556047517402-580x290.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/benjaminricard\/\" class=\"wpz-sc-button large\" style=\";background:#dedede\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-linkedin\" style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><\/i><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/span><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hassanpourlab.com\" class=\"wpz-sc-button large\" style=\";background:#dedede\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-flask\" style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><\/i><strong>Thesis lab<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"threecol-one\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">HOMETOWN<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><strong>Corpus Christi, Texas, USA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">LANGUAGES<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><strong>English<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">THESIS MENTOR<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/faculty\/facultydb\/view.php\/?uid=6539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Dr. Saeed Hassanpour<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"threecol-one\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">GRADUATE INSTITUTION<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Texas State University<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Master of Science in Biochemistry<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTION<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Texas State University<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"threecol-one last\"><div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large rounded \"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;color: #008000\"><strong>DARTMOUTH QBS PROFILE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">THESIS TITLE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Deep learning models of social media and online communication data for developing machine understanding models<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">CAREER TRACK(S)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Academia, Industry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">TECHNICAL EXPERTISE<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Python, R<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Member of Thayer Consulting Club<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large rounded \"><span style=\"color: #008000;font-size: 24pt\"><strong>QBS PhD Experience<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Electives<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Ricard%20BJ%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=30522991\" class=\"wpz-sc-button medium\" style=\";background:#dedede\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-file-text-o\" style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><\/i><strong>PubMed<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Poster Presentations<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Oral Presentations<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #339966;font-size: 24pt\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><div class=\"threecol-one\"><div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large  \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">My Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><em>\"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.\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"threecol-one\">\n<div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large  \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">Why QBS?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><em>\"QBS offers us a multidisciplinary environment to expand our perspective for studying biomedical sciences. Students are trained to be thinkers and creative problem-solvers.\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080\">FAVORITE QBS CLASS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/qbs-108-applied-machine-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QBS 108<\/a>: <span style=\"color: #000000\">Applied Machine Learning<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> <div class=\"threecol-one last\">\n<div class=\"wpz-sc-box normal large  \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">Life @ Dartmouth<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;font-size: 12pt\">WHEN I AM NOT IN LAB<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><em>\"I am with my cats and hiking (when I can).\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminjricard.com\/\" class=\"wpz-sc-button large\" style=\";background:#dedede\"><span><i class=\"fa fa-user\" style=\"padding-right:6px;\"><\/i><strong>Personal Website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"parent":8287,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2809","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","author-146"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pbpy9s-Jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2809\/revisions\/3865"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}