H. Andrew Schwartz, whose “HLAB” research includes improvements to state of the art in artificial intelligence, has moved to the new College of Connecting Computing. Schwartz also specializes in investigating language, in all forms, as a window into the human condition – mental health, fundamental human traits, and behavioral motives.
“I’m thrilled to be an inaugural faculty of Vanderbilt’s new College of Connected Computing to help build one of the world’s first academic programs in computational psychology, including developing state-of-the-art research and preparing students for where AI meets psychology and health,” said Schwartz, director of the Human Language Analysis Lab (HLAB) which is also moving to Vanderbilt after a decade in the Computer Science and Psychology Departments at Stony Brook University (SUNY).
On Oct. 31, the lab is hosting a “Get to Know HLAB Research” session where lab members will share brief talks about their work. Sign up here: Google Form.
Schwartz is also a principal investigator and co-founder for the World Well-Being Project, a multi-disciplinary consortium between the University of Pennsylvania, Stony Brook University, and Stanford University focused on developing large-scale language analyses that reveal differences in health, personality, and well-being. He hopes to bring Vanderbilt into the fold of this consortium.
He is an active member of the fields of AI, natural language processing, psychology, and health informatics. Schwartz created the Differential Language Analysis ToolKit, used in over 100 studies and by a variety of tech companies, and he also co-created the newly released text package for R programming language that brings LLM embeddings to R.
His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Templeton Foundation, and he was a 2020 recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award. He has advised a variety of tech startups in their analytics infrastructure, and his work has been featured in more than 100 media outlets.