Frank Rudzicz

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Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Associate professor (Status Only), Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Frank Rudzicz is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University. His research is in machine learning in healthcare, especially in natural language processing, speech, and safety. Frank completed his PhD in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and his Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University. Frank is also the co-founder of several health+AI companies, some of which, like WinterLight Labs, have seen successful exits. He teaches courses on data mining, deep speech technologies, and ML in clinical medicine.

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Healthcare
  • Speech Technologies
  • Explainable AI
  • Fairness in Machine Learning

Highlights

  • Co-founded WinterLight Labs
  • Recipient, Connaught Innovation award
  • Recipient, Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
  • Recipient, Excellence in Applied Research award, National Speech-Language & Audiology Canada
  • President, Joint Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2015-present
  • Member, CIHR College of Reviewers
  • Appeared in the New York Times, the Globe & Mail, Wired, Maclean’s, Space, CTV News, CBC News, the Toronto Star, Nature, and Scientific American.

Publications

Population-based incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in children and adults in Ontario and British Columbia, 2002–2018: A Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study

Sharifa Nasreen and Jun Wang and Jeffrey C Kwong and Natasha S Crowcroft and Manish Sadarangani and Sarah E Wilson and Allison McGeer and James D Kellner and Caroline Quach and Shaun K Morris and Beate Sander and Julianne V Kus and Monika Naus and Linda Hoang and Frank Rudzicz and Shaza Fadel and Fawziah Marra

2021

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