Scholar
Ayah Zirikly
Google Scholar ID: 4S5BlLEAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,390
H-index
17
i10-index
21
Publications
20
Co-authors
39
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Background
- Currently a research scientist at the Center for Language and Speech Processing and Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
- Focuses on building explainable and fair Natural Language Processing (NLP) models for mental health applications in both clinical and social media contexts.
- Aims to develop models that are reliable for mental health professionals and sensitive to underrepresented groups, avoiding black-box predictions.
- Actively involved in suicide risk assessment research on social media; published the UMD Reddit Suicidality Dataset, one of the few annotated datasets in this area.
- Current research also includes language stigmatization in clinical notes and gender equity in social media.
