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Lead Researcher for COVID-19 in Social Media
Universidad de los Andes• November 2020 - Present
- Design, management, and administration of 3 databases with ~1 million records. - Description of volume, reach, engagement, and influence of ~10K social media users. - Automatic gender imputation using an ensemble of gradient-boosted random forests. - Analysis of the most prevalent topics and disinformation narratives using machine learning.
Health Data Science Consultant
University of Chicago• March 2021 - December 2021
- Design, training, and validation of a bi-directional gated recurrent unit with a test accuracy of 84% for the prediction of a patient's discharge diagnosis (i.e., working baseline of 50%). - Creation of end-to-end analysis pipelines that resulted in 18 validated models using naïve Bayes, logistic regression, support vector machine, and neural network methodologies. - Healthcare text mining of ~ 700k doctor's notes using natural language processing. - Design and implementation of an interactive front-end application for real-time clinician queries.
Professor of Graduate Programs
Universidad de los Andes• June 2019 - August 2020
- Coordination of field research for pediatric acute respiratory failure in Colombia (FARA study). - Research of multidimensional poverty gaps in children aged 5 to 15 years leveraging 26 national- level surveys from 19 countries in Latin America. - Design and instruction of math, statistics, probability, R and Python graduate-level courses.
Education
University of Chicago, Chicago
Data Science, MS• August 2020 - December 2021
Universidad El Bosque
Epidemiology, MS• July 2017 - June 2019
Universidad de Los Andes
Medicine, MD• June 2010 - June 2017