Mark Dredze is a John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science, the director of the Data Science and AI Institute, and the associate head of research and strategic initiatives for the Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University. He develops artificial intelligence systems based on natural language processing and explores their applications to public health and medicine.
His research centers around statistical models of language with applications to social media analysis, public health, and clinical informatics. Within natural language processing he focuses on statistical methods for information extraction, but has considered a wide range of NLP tasks, including syntax, semantics, sentiment, and spoken language processing. Dredze’s work in public health addresses the areas of tobacco control, vaccinations, infectious disease surveillance, mental health, drug use, and gun violence prevention. He also develops new methods for clinical NLP on medical records.
He is affiliated with multiple Johns Hopkins institutions, among them the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Center for Language and Speech Processing; he also holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine’s Biomedical Informatics & Data Science Section in the Department of Medicine within the Division of General Internal Medicine.
Dredze has pioneered new applications in public health informatics and is the author or co-author on more than 350 papers in scholarly publications, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vaccine, and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. His work is regularly covered by major media outlets, including NPR, The New York Times, and CNN.
Dredze earned bachelor’s degrees in computer science and computer engineering from Northwestern University, holds a master’s in Modern Jewish History from Yeshiva University, and completed his PhD in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Dredze also spent time as a software engineer and researcher at Microsoft, IBM, and Google.
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Computer Scientist Mark Dredze Named Director of Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute
CategoriesDredze, a member of JHU's faculty since 2009, selected to lead institute dedicated to harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to translate data-driven discovery into real-world impact
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Navigating AI in Policy
CategoriesJohns Hopkins experts briefed DC policymakers about the potential of AI to advance everything from national security to medicine.
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Inaugural recipients named as part of the JHU + Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI (AI2AI).