D. B. Emerson

Researcher, AI Engineering, Vector Institute

Joined

February 2023

Names

D. B. Emerson (Preferred)

David Bruce Emerson

David B. Emerson

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@vectorinstitute.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

AI Engineering, Vector Institute (vectorinstitute.ai)

2015 – Present

PhD student

Mathematics, Tufts University (tufts.edu)

2012 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

James Adler

2012 – 2015

PhD Advisor

Scott MacLachlan

2012 – 2015

Expertise

federated learning

2017 – Present

natural language processing

2015 – Present

scientific computing

2012 – Present

partial differential equations

2012 – Present

Publications

Competition of Lattice and Basis for Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Timothy Atherton, D. B. Emerson, James Adler
- Physical Review E
- Readers: Everyone
A Posteriori Error Estimators for the Frank-Oseen Model of Liquid Crystals
D. B. Emerson
- Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics
- Readers: Everyone
Computing Equilibrium States of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals in Elliptical Channels with Deflation Algorithms
D. B. Emerson, James Adler, Scott MacLachlan, Timothy Atherton
- Liquid Crystals
- Readers: Everyone
Development of prompt templates for large language model–driven screening in systematic reviews
Christian Cao, Rohit Arora, D. B. Emerson, Rahul Arora
- Annals of Internal Medicine
- Readers: Everyone
A comparative study of prompting strategies for legal text classification
Ali Hakimi Parizi, Yuyang Liu, Prudhvi Nokku, Sina Gholamian, D. B. Emerson
- Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023
- Readers: Everyone
FedDPSyn: Federated Tabular Data Synthesis with Computational Differential Privacy
Shufan Zhang, Haochen Sun, Shubhankar Mohapatra, Masoumeh Shafieinejad, D. B. Emerson, Xi He
- TPDP 2025 workshop
- Readers: Everyone
CAPID: Context-Aware PII Detection for Question-Answering Systems
Mariia Ponomarenko, Sepideh Abedini, Masoumeh Shafieinejad, D. B. Emerson, Shubhankar Mohapatra, Xi He
- Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
- Readers: Everyone
Training with local data remains important for deep learning MRI prostate cancer detection
Shawn Carere, John Taylor Jewell, D. B. Emerson, Masoom Haider
- Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal,
- Readers: Everyone
MaskSQL: Safeguarding Privacy for LLM-Based Text-to-SQL via Abstraction
Sepideh Abedini, Shubhankar Mohapatra, D. B. Emerson, Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Jesse C. Cresswell, Xi He
- RegML 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Template-Based Probes Are Imperfect Lenses for Counterfactual Bias Evaluation in LLMs
Farnaz Kohankhaki, D. B. Emerson, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Faiza Khan Khattak
- Accepted by TMLR
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