Andy is a computational linguist focused on large and scalable language analyses for health and social sciences. Utilizing natural language processing and machine learning techniques he has discovered new behavioral and psychological factors of health and well-being as manifest through language in social media. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida in 2011, with research focused on acquiring lexical semantic knowledge from the Web. His recent work has been featured in WIRED and The Atlantic: Cities.