Babak J. Fard, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health
Environmental Data Scientist
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.
- 2018, Ph.D., Northeastern University, Boston, MA., Interdisciplinary Engineering
- 2011, M.Sc., Northeastern University, Boston, MA., Civil & Environmental Engineering
Applying environmental data science to evaluate how climate and environmental exposures affect health outcomes across varying geographic and temporal scales through geospatial analyses and machine learning. Researching and developing AI tools—such as Model Context Protocols, AI agents and fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs)—for integration into environmental health research and applications.
- 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.
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Jalalzadeh Fard, Babak, Sadid A. Hasan, and Jesse E. Bell. "Facilitating AI-Driven Sustainability: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Interoperable Environmental Data Access." Sustainability 18, no. 5 (2026): 2445.
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)