Babak J. Fard, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Environmental Data Scientist
Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2023-present, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health
• 2019-2023, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Nebraska Medical Center

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)