Eric M. Clark, PhD


Email: eclark[at]uvm[dot]edu
Office: Farrell Hall 2nd Floor RM 204 (Trinity Campus)
Affiliates: Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
Vermont Complex Systems Center, Computational Story Lab,
Department of Surgery,
Global Health Economics Unit of the Vermont Center for Clinical and Translational Science



                  


My Professional CV



About:
  I am an applied mathematician who is interested in implementing mathematical theory to solve real-world,  interdisciplinary problems.  My interests include (but are not limited to) Network Theory, Social Contagion, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Complex Systems.  Currently, I am working with the Department of Surgery at UVM to investigate  health trends on Twitter to make socio-geographical comparisons of different treatment regimens and how sentiments surrounding such health disparities are changing over time.

Computational Story Lab
On Positivity and Politicians: Linking Candidate Annotated Debate Transcripts to Public Twitter Sentiment
   Computational StoryLab (blog post)  
  March 2015


On Positivity and Politicians: Polling for Sentiment on Twitter
  Computational StoryLab (blog post)
  March 2015

 





 

Selected Journal Publications:

Sifting robotic from organic text: A natural language approach for detecting automation on Twitter
  Journal of Computational Science     
 Published 19 November 2015

 


 
Vaporous Marketing: Uncovering Pervasive Electronic Cigarette Advertisements on Twitter
    arXiv Preprint (in review PLOS one)    
 Published 8 August 2015

  

Human language reveals a universal positivity bias
  PNAS    
  Published 9 January 2015

Projects and Conference Presentations:

Social Media Meets Population Health: A Sentiment and Demographic Analysis of Tobacco and E-cigarette Use Across the Twittersphere     
ISPOR Amsterdam Conference Nov 2014







Electronic Cigarettes on Twitter: Organic Responses to Mass Social Media Marketing Campaigns         
VCBH Conference Oct '14

























Multi-Lingual Valence Analysis Across 20th Century Literature and the Twittersphere
Master's Thesis: Accepted Spring '14  (For Full Thesis Click Here)
UVM SRC Spring '14  (For poster Version Click Here)





Interactive Translation Happiness Comparisons





Evoloving Multiple Gaits for a Robot using Random Boolean Networks
UVM Student Research Conference Spring '13





Solar System Numerical Integration










     

 







 


Press:
Forbes Article, Operation Blue Sky:
  "IBM Research Data Scientist Eric Clark explores wearable technologies that could help monitor and analyze biological data from study subjects on Thursday, April 7, 2016 at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, NY. IBM and Pfizer are collaborating to create a first-of-a-kind remote monitoring system to support patients with Parkinson's disease. This non-invasive, real-time approach to patient data will offer new insights into disease progression and treatment plans. By applying advanced analytics and machine learning to sensor data, the hope is to transform how neurological diseases are diagnosed and treated. And, ultimately, change how clinical trials are designed. "
-Fortune (article)        PEACE LOVE UNITY RESPECT.
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Past Courses @UVM:



Math 021: Z1          Summer '14
Syllabus
Exam 1: Due Thursday June 5
Exam 2: Due Thursday June 19
Final Exam Review
Trig-Identities


Mathematica Labs:
Tutorial-1
Tutorial-2
Lab 1
Lab-2 Tutorial
Lab 2

Math 019G: Fundamentals of Calculus I         Spring '13 
Math 019N/Q: Fundamentals of Calculus I         Fall '13

Course Syllabus
Final Exam Practice Problems

Lecture Notes:
Chapter R: Algebra Review   
Ch1: Linear Functions
Ch2: Nonlinear Functions
Ch3: 3.1 - 3.3
Ch 3.3- 4.1
Ch4: 4.2-4.5
Ch 5: Extrema
Ch 6: Optimization
Unit Circle

Math 017A: Applications of Modern Mathematics            Fall '12
 
Homework
Course Syllabus
Lecture Notes