Patrick Butler

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.

Senior Research Associate
Research Areas:

Forecasting
Urban Computing

Publications

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New! Detecting Media Self-Censorship without Explicit Training Data

Rongrong Tao, Feng Chen, David Mares, Patrick Butler, Naren Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, (pp 550-558),
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New! Using AntiPatterns to avoid MLOps Mistakes

Nikhil Muralidhar, Sathappan Muthiah, Patrick Butler, Naren Ramakrishnan
In Cornell University, : , 06/2021
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EMBERS at 4 years: Experiences operating an Open Source Indicators Forecasting System

Sathappan Muthiah, Patrick Butler, Rupinder Paul Khandpur, Parang Saraf, Nathan Self, Liang Zhao, Jose Cadena, Chang-Tien Lu, Anil Vullikanti, Achla Marathe, Kristen Summers, Graham Katz, Andy Doyle, Jaime Arredondo, Dipak Gupta, David Mares, Naren Ramakrishnan
In Proceedings of the ACM ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (pp ), 08/2016
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