Welcome Dr. Dmitry Scherbakov
We are excited to welcome Dr. Dmitry Scherbakov to our lab!
Dmitry’s role in the Integrative Pain Laboratory (iPainlab) will be to conduct machine learning analysis of texts and numerical data coming from social media of chronic pain patients, surveys and digital platforms. The resulting data models will be used to improve existing diagnostic tools available to doctors. He will also work on the creation of therapeutic chat-bot which will help patients assess and treat their pain.
Dmitry has completed his PhD in Media Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities. In his PhD work he applied traditional and computer based methods to analysis of texts. He was able to show that media reputation of the left-wing writer N.G. Chernyshevsky is cyclic in nature as manifested in different types of media from old journals to internet discussion boards.