Adam Poliak

Adam is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College. He was previously a Roman Family Teaching and Research Fellow in Computer Science at Barnard College where he was affiliated with the The Data Science Institute at Columbia University. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, where I was affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing and advised by Benjamin Van Durme.

My research interests include natural language processing and computational social science. In particular, I study the reasoning capabilities and biases in natural language processing models. I also apply natural language processing to other fields to glean insights from large amounts of text. Most recently, I have been applying NLP techniques to open problems in public health and social sciences.