Aviv Landau

Aviv Y. Landau, PhD, MSW

  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Co-Director of SAFElab
  • Research Interests

    Health disparities

    Child abuse and neglect

    Ethical artificial intelligence

    Underserved populations

    Social media

    Clinical decision support systems

    Qualitative methodology

    Dr. Aviv Y. Landau is the Co-Director of SAFElab and a postdoctoral research scientist at Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice under the guidance of Professor Desmond Patton.

    His research focuses on developing and implementing interdisciplinary computational and social work approaches. Dr. Landau’s main topics of interest are health disparities, child abuse and neglect, ethical artificial intelligence, social media, social justice equity, natural language processing, developing clinical decision support systems, and qualitative methodologies.

    In his research on child abuse and neglect, Dr. Landau developed ethical recommendations for implementing machine learning-based models for detecting child abuse and prioritized the reduction of racial bias while developing a phenotype for child abuse and neglect.

    Dr. Landau worked for several years as a social worker in Israel with youth from diverse and marginalized backgrounds such as; immigrants, LGBQs, and school dropouts. Dr. Landau received his BSW, MSW, and PhD from the University of Haifa, Israel.

     

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