Ari Klein, PhD

Dr. Ari Z. Klein is a Research Assistant Professor of Informatics. Broadly, his work involves developing, evaluating, and applying natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and mixed methods to analyze real-world health data from unstructured text, such as social media, published articles, clinical notes, and transcripts, with a particular interest in advancing research that has been limited by traditional methods and data sources. For example, much of his work has focused on integrating the novel use of patient reports on social media as a complementary approach for epidemiology in pregnancy. In addition, his work helps address a gap in genomic epidemiology by mining published articles for patient metadata associated with genome sequences in databases. His data-driven work supports research across a wide range of domains, including pregnancy, COVID-19, medication non-adherence, palliative care, dementia caregiving, HIV, and health equity.