Lasse Hansen

PhD Student in Machine Learning for Healthcare

Aarhus University

Biography

I am cognitive scientist and soon-to-be PhD student at the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University. I study how to use natural language processing and machine learning to improve patient outcomes in psychiatry, with a particular focus on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am broadly interested in applying machine learning to solve problems in the healthcare sector and improving patient outcomes.

Interests

Machine Learning and AI
Psychiatric Disorders
Effective Altruism

Education

PhD student, 2021 - 2024

Aarhus University
Msc in Cognitive Science, 2019 - 2022

Aarhus University
Bachelor Semester Abroad, 2019

University of Otago
BSc in Cognitive Science, 2016 - 2019

Aarhus University

Skills

R

Python

Statistics

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing

Acoustic analysis

Experience

Data Science Intern

Hoffmann-La Roche

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 Basel, Switzerland

Research internship. Conducted a project on using transfer learning from emotional speech databases to predict the presence and severity of depression from interviews with Danish speakers. Supervised by Yan-Ping Zhang (Roche), Detlef Wolf (Roche), and Riccardo Fusaroli (Aarhus University).