Chris Kennedy is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Precision Psychiatry led by Jordan Smoller. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow in Gabriel Brat’s surgical informatics lab, in the department of biomedical informatics. He has a PhD in biostatistics from UC Berkeley where he worked with Alan Hubbard and Mark van der Laan. He is a research affiliate at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, UC Berkeley’s D-Lab, the Integrative Cancer Research Group, and Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research.
Chris chaired TextXD: Text Analysis Across Domains in 2018 & 2019, the premier text-focused data science conference at UC Berkeley. He is co-author of the SuperLearner machine learning framework and varimpact R package. Chris is lead author on the hate speech measurement project, is an NIH T-32 biomedical big data trainee, and is a member of the UCSF NLP Meetup.
He provides consulting services in deep/machine learning, data science, & surveying. In 2018 he led data science for Gavin Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign and Katie Porter’s congressional campaign.
PhD in biostatistics, 2020
University of California, Berkeley
Masters in public affairs, 2007
The University of Texas at Austin
B.A. in government and economics, 2005
The University of Texas at Austin
Integrate item response theory with deep NLP to enable major new innovations in the measurement of hate speech.
Analysis of exposure mixtures as data-adaptive target parameters based on cross-validated targeted learning (CV-TMLE).
Development of a risk score for chest pain at Kaiser Permanente using machine learning, generalized low rank models, variable importance, and accumulated local effect plots.
Ranking the importance of variables based on their estimated treatment effect on an outcome.
Application of deep learning to measure vaping marketing on Instagram.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss training for your institution.