David Carlson

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Appointments and Affiliations

• Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Assistant Professor - Track V in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute

Contact Information

• Office Location: North Pavilion 8047, 2400 Pratt St., Durham, NC 27705
• Office Phone: (757) 784-6919
• Email Address: david.carlson@duke.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Duke University, 2015

Research Interests

Machine learning, predictive modeling, health data science, statistical neuroscience

Courses Taught

• CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CEE 692: Independent Study: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering

In the News

• David Carlson: Engineering and Machine Learning for Better Medicine (Jan 9, 2018 | Duke Research Blog)
• David Carlson: Generating Scientific Understanding from Machine Learning (Aug 24, 2017 | Pratt School of Engineering)

Representative Publications

• Zheng, T; Bergin, MH; Johnson, KK; Tripathi, SN; Shirodkar, S; Landis, MS; Sutaria, R; Carlson, DE, Field evaluation of low-cost particulate matter sensors in high-and low-concentration environments, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, vol 11 no. 8 (2018), pp. 4823-4846 [10.5194/amt-11-4823-2018] [abs].
• Goldstein, BA; Carlson, D; Bhavsar, NA, Subject Matter Knowledge in the Age of Big Data and Machine Learning., Jama Network Open, vol 1 no. 4 (2018) [10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.1568] [abs].
• Liang, K; Gregory, C; Diallo, SO; Roe, K; Heilmann, G; Carin, L; Carlson, D; Spell, G; Sigman, J, Automatic threat recognition of prohibited items at aviation checkpoint with x-ray imaging: a deep learning approach, Anomaly Detection and Imaging With X Rays (Adix) Iii (2018) [10.1117/12.2309484] [abs].
• Hultman, R; Ulrich, K; Sachs, BD; Blount, C; Carlson, DE; Ndubuizu, N; Bagot, RC; Parise, EM; Vu, M-AT; Gallagher, NM; Wang, J; Silva, AJ; Deisseroth, K; Mague, SD; Caron, MG; Nestler, EJ; Carin, L; Dzirasa, K, Brain-wide Electrical Spatiotemporal Dynamics Encode Depression Vulnerability., Cell, vol 173 no. 1 (2018), pp. 166-180.e14 [10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.012] [abs].
• Vu, M-AT; Adalı, T; Ba, D; Buzsáki, G; Carlson, D; Heller, K; Liston, C; Rudin, C; Sohal, VS; Widge, AS; Mayberg, HS; Sapiro, G; Dzirasa, K, A Shared Vision for Machine Learning in Neuroscience., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol 38 no. 7 (2018), pp. 1601-1607 [10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0508-17.2018] [abs].