Frank Rudzicz
About
Appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2017
Renewed Canada CIFAR AI Chair – 2023
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 recognition, and surgical 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 and President of WinterLight Labs.
Awards
- Connaught Innovation Award, 2018
- Ontario Early Researcher Award, 2016
- Excellence in Applied Research Award, National Speech-Language & Audiology Canada, 2016
Relevant Publications
Khattak, F. K., Jeblee, S., Pou-Prom, C., Abdalla, M., Meaney, C., & Rudzicz, F. (2019). A survey of word embeddings for clinical text. Journal of Biomedical Informatics: X, 4, 100057.
Shen, J. H., & Rudzicz, F. (2017). Detecting anxiety through reddit. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology—From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality (pp. 58-65).
Fraser, K. C., Meltzer, J. A., & Rudzicz, F. (2016). Linguistic features identify Alzheimer’s disease in narrative speech. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 49(2), 407-422.
Rudzicz, F., Namasivayam, A. K., & Wolff, T. (2012). The TORGO database of acoustic and articulatory speech from speakers with dysarthria. Language Resources and Evaluation, 46(4), 523-541.
Mengistu, K. T., & Rudzicz, F. (2011). Adapting acoustic and lexical models to dysarthric speech. In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 4924-4927). IEEE.
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