Dr Judita Preiss
MA (Cambridge), MPHil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Lecturer in Data Science
Full contact details
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Room C243
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I have a MA Cantab in Mathematics, MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing from Engineering and a PhD in Natural Language Processing (Computer Science) all from Cambridge. Natural Language Processing was a way to combine my interest in Mathematics and Languages.
After finishing my PhD, I was an RA at Cambridge in the Natural Language Processing group, working on multiple projects. Between 2008-2010, I was a visiting professor at The Ohio State University, before returning to the UK to undertake a number of research projects in the Natural Language Processing group at the University of Sheffield. The constant need for more and more data fuelled an interest in approaches to gathering data and big data techniques, and I took up a post as a lecturer in Data Science at the University of Salford, which I held from 2017 to 2022.
Alongside my interest in data, I have worked on knowledge transfer to industry and applications of my research to real life settings.
- Research interests
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I have a great number of interests: my current research topics range from work in the biomedical domain (such as automatic discoveries) with the associated applications in health, through mental health which includes work with social media texts as well as other sources of input, the automatic organization of data and presentation of it to users, to approaches involving multiple languages and automatically detectable differences between cultures.
I am very interested in work which involves text or speech, particularly when large quantities of data are involved. My current areas of PhD topics include:
- mining, and deriving, of knowledge and applications
- social media applications
- automatic arranging of knowledge
- multi-lingual models and the differences between these
- Publications
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- Teaching activities
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- Big Data module (INF6032)
- Business Intelligence (INF6040)
- Practical Programming for Data Science (INF111)
- Data Analysis (INF6029)
- Professional activities and memberships
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As well as being Databricks certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 3.0 - Python, I am an active member of the Databricks University Alliance. Similarly, I have been involved with Amazon Web Services, where I'm certified SysOps Administrator - Associate as well as being an AWS Academy Educator. I am also a member of the rolling review panel for ACL.