Detravious Jamari Brinkley | Research
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Academic Profile
Graduate Student: Ph.D. in Computer Science Institutional Affiliation
Institution: University of Florida (UF) Contact Info
Office: Malachowsky (MALA) Hall 6200 |
About my research
I am advised by Christan Grant, PhD on the following: How do we decide which voices to trust, since human projections—finances (e.g., stock picks), sports (e.g., who will win a game or championship), politics (e.g., who to vote for), and even weather (e.g., what to wear)—shape our everyday decisions? My research uses natural language processing (NLP) to identify and analyze these projections, then evaluates their veracity by gathering real-world observations to compare against, and estimates the reliability of their sources (experts, family, friends, online communities, social media, and organizations) from their historical track records. I’m currently focused on text, with plans to incorporate audio and visual modalities in my dissertation.
Previously I spent time in the Knowledge Capture And Discover group where I was blessed to be advised by Yolanda Gil, PhD while having Emmanuel Dorley, PhD as a direct mentor.
Research interests
My research interest lie at the intersection of NLP--human projections--and time series (TS)--models predictions--for real-time systems.
NLP: multimodal (text, audio, visual) human projections
NLP: data aquisition and information retrieval (IR)
TS: mix-frequencies forecasting
TS: interpolation of missing values
TS: changepoint detection
TS: explainable and interpretable models
See below for some of my papers (a full list can be found at Google Scholar).
Publications and Presentations
[ACM IUI 2023, Publication] Reproducibility as a Stepping Stone to Intelligent Assistants for Data Analysis: Recreating a Study of Physical Activity, Sleep, and Work Shift in Nurses.
Brinkley D, Johnson E, Feng T, Gil Y
[USC ISI 2022, Publication] Reproducibility as a Stepping Stone to Intelligent Assistants for Data Analysis: An Analysis of Physical Activity, Sleep, and Work Shift in Nurses.
Brinkley D, Johnson E, Feng T, Gil Y
[Nucleic Acids Research Journal 2019, Publication] Fail-safe genetic codes designed to intrinsically contain engineered organisms.
Calles J, Justice I, Brinkley D, Garcia A, Endy D
[bioRxiv 2019, Publication] Synthetic Genetic Codes Designed to Hinder Evolution.
Calles J, Justice I, Brinkley D, Garcia A, Endy D
[Claflin University Research Day 2019, Oral Presentation] Assessing Orangeburg County's Businesses and Citizens to Revitalize the Community.
Brinkley D, Wheeler B
Service
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Served as a MSc mentor to underrepresented undergraduates at USC for the Google x USC Viterbi AI Community Project, focused on teaching AI to the local Los Angeles community.