Patrick James Herron in Chapel Hill, NC | Duke University - Holy Cross High School

Patrick J. Herron

Male, 48 years old

In August I became the Research Analyst and Technologist for the Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair in New Technologies and Society at Duke University. I work closely with Duke's sole University Professor, Timothy Lenoir, on science and technology studies (STS). My main research interest is in the computational augmentation of reading and discovery. I currently focus on real-time topic trend detection to analyze the impact of globalization on nanoscience in China, the US, India, and other nations. I am also studying the outbreak of political memes on Twitter as well as dominant trends in cultural studies. Major research collaborations include the NSF-supported Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UCSB, India's Ministry of Agriculture, allpatents.org, SparkIP.com (now prior-ip.com), and the Virtual Peace initiative, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. At Duke I also serve as an instructor in new media studies courses. In I enjoyed the publication of my first book-length research text on text mining and pharmacogenomics. In December I completed my MS in Information Science from UNC along with a minor in Computer Science and a Certificate of Specialization in Bioinformatics. I focused my academic training on text mining of medical information. While in graduate school I maintained a consulting business in web development and design while also working at ibiblio as a java developer and Linux systems administrator. During that time I also interned at SAS where I created a novel enterprise architecture classification framework based on automated analysis of user behavior and site content. The static version of the architecture remains in use at sas.com. Before graduate school I worked as a software developer for a rapidly growing startup, TManage. Previous to TManage I was the Web Operations Manager for ICCVAM and NICEATM, two interagency toxicological testing groups originating out of the NIEHS. Specialties trend detection, STS, informetrics, innovation analysis, ontology generation, text mining, text analytics, data mining, machine learning, knowledge discovery, natural language processing, enterprise search, web search, information retrieval, data visualization, information architecture, database design development, db administration, java, oracle, MySQL, SQL, clustering, classification, support vector machines (SVM), drug discovery, bioinformatics, project management, systems analysis read more ...