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Babak J. Fard, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health
Environmental Data Scientist

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Babak J. Fard, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health in the UNMC College of Public Health.

He previously served as a postdoctoral research associate at UNMC.

Education

2018, Ph.D., Northeastern University, Boston, MA., Interdisciplinary Engineering
2011, M.Sc., Northeastern University, Boston, MA., Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research interests

Using different environmental data science techniques to find the patterns and associations of environmental factors, including climate variables, in different geographical and temporal scales and their associations with the potential health outcomes. This may include different geospatial analyses, machine learning, or AI models and tools.

Selected Publications

Fard, B. Jalalzadeh, S. A. Hasan, and Jesse E. Bell. "Climedbert: A pre-trained language model for climate and health-related text." arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00689(2022).
Jalalzadeh Fard, Babak, Jagadeesh Puvvula, and Jesse E. Bell. "Evaluating changes in health risk from drought over the contiguous United States." International journal of environmental research and public health8 (2022): 4628.
Jalalzadeh Fard, Babak, et al. "Mapping heat vulnerability index based on different urbanization levels in Nebraska, USA." GeoHealth10 (2021): e2021GH000478.

Professional Affiliations

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)