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
- Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
- Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Contact Information
- Office Location: Hudson Hall 165, 100 Science Dr, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (919) 660-5421
- 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
- CEE 780: Internship
- COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study
- ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- EGR 190: Special Topics in Engineering
- EGR 590: Special Topics in Engineering
- POE 190: Practice Oriented Education
- POE 790: Practice Oriented Education
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; Hu, S; Miller, J; Carlson, DE, Estimating ground-level PM2.5 using micro-satellite images by a convolutional neural network and random forest approach, Atmospheric Environment, vol 230 (2020) [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117451] [abs].
- Cheng, P; Li, Y; Zhang, X; Cheng, L; Carlson, D; Carin, L, Gaussian-Process-Based Dynamic Embedding for Textual Networks, Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2020) [abs].
- Isaev, DY; Major, S; Murias, M; Carpenter, KLH; Carlson, D; Sapiro, G; Dawson, G, Relative Average Look Duration and its Association with Neurophysiological Activity in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Scientific Reports, vol 10 (2020), pp. 1-11 [abs].
- Zhou, T; Li, Y; Wu, Y; Carlson, D, Estimating Uncertainty Intervals from Collaborating Networks, Arxiv Preprint Arxiv:2002.05212 (2020) [abs].
- Lee, J; Mitelut, C; Shokri, H; Kinsella, I; Dethe, N; Wu, S; Li, K; Reyes, EB; Turcu, D; Batty, E; others,, YASS: Yet Another Spike Sorter applied to large-scale multi-electrode array recordings in primate retina, Biorxiv (2020) [abs].