I am a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of
Melbourne's School of Computing
& Information Systems and the Centre
for Digital Transformation of Health. My
research interests are centred on the application of
computational methods — particularly natural language
processing — to public health research questions, with
much of my research output focused on the broad areas of
communicable diseases, mental health, and substance
use. In addition to my computational work, I also
publish on ethical and socio-technical issues associated
with the development of digital health technologies.
My research has been funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (National Library of Medicine and National Institute on Drug Abuse).
Prior to joining the University of Melbourne in 2021, I
held research positions at the University of Pittsburgh,
Mayo Clinic, the
University
of California San Diego, and the University
of Utah.
I am always interested in supervising PhD projects at the
intersection of digital health and computer science.
If you have a strong interest in applying your
computational or qualitative analysis skills to address
public health research questions, first take time to check
out my publications and then please email me at mike.conway@unimelb.edu.au
using the subject "PhD Enquiry" with a brief statement of
your research interests and a CV. Individuals with
training or interest in social science/computational
social science are particularly encouraged to get in
touch.
***Update*** I am
currently interested in recruiting strong PhD students to
work on projects related to (a) pharmacovigilance of
cannabis-related products in social media text, and (b)
the use of NLP methods to investigate substance use
disorder-related stigma processes in social media
data. For the latter project I am also seeking a
postdoctoral fellow (see job
description) interested in working with both
computational and qualitative methods [Note that this
postdoctoral fellow would be based at the University of
Washington in Seattle, not the University of Melbourne].
***New Update*** In
collaboration with the University of Melbourne's
Department of General Practice, we are currently
recruiting a PhD student to work on using NLP to
automatically extract risk-taking behaviours (e.g.
substance use, risky sexual behaviors) from clinical notes
(see job
description)
Jan 2023
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Health
School of Computing & Information Systems
University of Melbourne
700 Swanston Street
Carlton VIC 3053
Australia