H. Andrew Schwartz

Associate Professor of Computer Science & Psychology,
College of Connected Computing,
Vanderbilt University

Director, HLAB: Human Language Analysis Beings, Vanderbilt University
Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science, Stony Brook University
Principal Investigator, World Well-Being Project, (UPenn, Vanderbilt, and Stanford)
Co-Lead, Methods Core, CREATE, The Center for Advancing Therapy with AI

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Human Language Analysis
Natural Language Processing

Mental Health and Well-Being
Artificial Intelligence

Computational Psychology
Applied Machine Learning

Computational Linguistics
Data Science
News and Travel
Teaching

Courses

Mentorship
The HLAB: Human Language Analysis Beings
 Adithya Ganesan, PhD Student: Transformer Large Language Models: Tuning, Temporal NLP
 Nikita Soni, PhD Student (co-advised with Niranjan Balasubramanian): Human-Language Modeling
 Syeda Mahwish, Research Coordinator (Public Health/Psych): Resilience
 Oscar Kjell, Postdoctoral Fellow: Language-based Assessments of Well-Being and Mental Health

PhD and Postdoc Alumni (Graduated Lab Members):
 Vasudha Varadarajan, PhD - Summer 2025 (Now a Postdoctoral Fellow, CMU)
NLP and Transformers for Dissonance and Cognitive Styles
 Siddharth Mangalik, PhD - Summer 2025 (Now at Meta Research, New York) Robust Spatial-Temporal Well-Being Assessment
 Swanie Juhng, PhD - Summer 2025 (Now at Meta, Seattle)
Language-based Anxiety Assessment
 Ryan Boyd, previous Research Associate Professor (now Assistant Professor at UT Dallas)
 Huy Vu, PhD - Summer 2023
 Matthew Matero, PhD - Spring 2023
 Mohammadzaman Zamani, PhD - Fall 2020 (Now with EBay AI)
 Youngseo Son, PhD - Fall 2020 (Now with Facebook, Palo Alto)
 Veronica Lynn, PhD - Fall 2019 (co-advised with N Balasubramanian; now with Facebook Research, Seattle)
 Vivek Kulkarni, PhD - Spring 2017 (co-advised with S Skiena; Now Postdoc at Stanford with Dan Jurafsky)
 Masoud Rouhizadeh, Previous Postdoc (Now Postdoc at JHU)

Data, Demos, and Code

Age and Gender

Personality
To be posted

Temporal Orientation

Code: Differential Language Analysis
Feature Worker (an open-vocabulary language analysis infrastructure, primarily in Python)

Code: Social Media Tokenizer
Happier Fun Tokenizer (An improved version of Christopher Pott's Happy Fun Tokenizing, shared with his permission.)