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Glen Coppersmith
Graduate Student
Department of Psychology, 125-NI
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115 USA
(617) 373-3072 (office)
(617) 373-8714 (fax)
coppersmith.g@neu.edu

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Advisor: Rich Melloni Jr.

Research

My doctoral disseration research is an application of machine learning and computational methods as a means of behavioral analysis in the field of aggression. There are many aspects of the human experience that have been implicated in creating maladaptive aggressive tendencies (personal biological makeup, environmental factors, familial factors, personality factors, psychiatric diagnosis, substance abuse, physical abuse, etc.). However, it is not known how all of these factors interact to produce the maladaptive and violent outcome. My research is aimed at untangling this web of modulators and mediators in the hopes of finding ways to better understand, identify, and treat maladaptive aggressive tendencies.

My masters research applies my computer-science and mathematics background to the the area of psycholinguistics. My masters thesis is a series of studies examining, via computational methods and modeling, the relation between syntax and semantics. This research has broader ramifications on knowledge representation, knowledge extraction, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.