Patrick Butler

pabutler@vt.edu

Patrick Butler is a senior research associate at the Sanghani Center. The main thrust of his research focuses on the IARPA funded EMBERS project that uses open source indicators such as tweets, news, blog, weather, etc., to forecast population level events such as civil unrest, elections, and epidemics. He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech in 2014 during which time he was awarded a SMART Fellowship. His dissertation was in the area of using knowledge discovery for intelligence analysis.

Publications

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Lessons from Deep Learning applied to Scholarly Information Extraction: What Works, What Doesn't, and Future Directions Date: Jul 07, 2022 -
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Using AntiPatterns to avoid MLOps Mistakes Date: Jun 29, 2021 -
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EMBERS at 4 years: Experiences operating an Open Source Indicators Forecasting System Date: Aug 14, 2016 -

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Projects

In the News

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AI projects move forward in collaboration between Virginia Tech, Children’s National Hospital , article Date: Aug 28, 2024 -
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Sanghani Center leads collaborative study to improve both discovery and traceability of illegally-sourced timber , article Date: Oct 31, 2023 -
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Research award aims to develop new algorithms for information extraction and understanding from scholarly literature , article Date: Apr 16, 2020 -

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