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Washington State University: Pullman, WA, US

2017 to present | Research Professor (Paul Allen School for Global Animal Health)
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Lauren E. Charles

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Richland, WA, US

2016-02 to present | Chief Data Scientist (Applied AI Systems Group)
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Lauren E. Charles

Education and qualifications (5)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Richland, WA, US

2015-01 to 2016-01 | Post-Doctorate (Data Science and Analytics)
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Lauren E. Charles

North Carolina State University: Raleigh, NC, US

2009-08 to 2014-12 | PhD (Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology)
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Lauren E. Charles

North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine: Raleigh, NC, US

2005-08 to 2009-05 | DVM (Zoological Medicine)
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Lauren E. Charles

North Carolina State University: Raleigh, NC, US

2003-01 to 2005-05 | Masters (Plant Pathology)
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Lauren E. Charles

Boston College: Boston, MA, US

1996-08 to 2000-05 | Bachelor (Mathematics)
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Lauren E. Charles

Works (44)

Meeting Global Health Needs via Infectious Disease Forecasting: Development of a Reliable Data-Driven Framework

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
2025-03-21 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2369-2960
Contributors: Ravikiran Keshavamurthy; Karl T Pazdernik; Colby Ham; Samuel Dixon; Samantha Erwin; Lauren E. Charles
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Predicting Kyasanur forest disease in resource-limited settings using event-based surveillance and transfer learning

Scientific Reports
2023-07 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: 2221787
Contributors: Keshavamurthy, Ravikiran ; ; Charles, Lauren E.
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Lauren E. Charles via DOE OSTI.GOV
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Predicting infectious disease for biopreparedness and response: A systematic review of machine learning and deep learning approaches

One Health
2022-10 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: 2317676
Contributors: Keshavamurthy, Ravikiran ; ; Dixon, Samuel J. ; ; Pazdernik, Karl T. L. ; ; Charles, Lauren E. (ORCID:0000000307270479)
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A Comparison of Infectious Disease Forecasting Methods across Locations, Diseases, and Time

Pathogens
2022-01 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: 1842680
Contributors: Dixon, Samuel ; ; Keshavamurthy, Ravikiran (ORCID:0000000310413696); ; Farber, Daniel H. ; ; Stevens, Andrew ; ; Pazdernik, Karl T. (ORCID:0000000314104006); ; Charles, Lauren E. (ORCID:0000000307270479)
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Lauren E. Charles via DOE OSTI.GOV
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Disease and Social Media in Post-Natural Disaster Recovery Philippines

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Lauren E. Charles
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Online Platform for Visual COVID-19 Literature Interactive Discovery

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2021 | Preprint
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Lauren E. Charles

Online Interactive Platform for COVID-19 Literature Visual Analytics: Platform Development Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2021-07 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: 1809030
Contributors: Moran, Addy M. (ORCID:0000000169225011); ; Hampton, Shawn D. (ORCID:0000000343139961); ; Dowson, Scott T. (ORCID:0000000230715256); ; Dagdelen, John (ORCID:0000000321814815); ; Trewartha, Amalie (ORCID:0000000160958032); ; Ceder, Gerbrand (ORCID:0000000192753605); ; Persson, Kristin A. (ORCID:0000000324955509); ; Saxon, Elise K. (ORCID:0000000245753394); ; Barker, Andrew G. (ORCID:0000000331079041); ; Charles, Lauren E. (ORCID:0000000307270479); et al.
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Digital Biosurveillance for Zoonotic Disease Detection in Kenya

Pathogens
2021-06-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2076-0817
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Lauren E. Charles
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A Sheaf Theoretical Approach to Uncertainty Quantification of Heterogeneous Geolocation Information

Sensors
2020-06 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: 1639336
Contributors: Joslyn, Cliff A. (ORCID:0000000259235547); ; Charles, Lauren E. (ORCID:0000000307270479); ; DePerno, Christopher S. (ORCID:0000000221478607); ; Gould, Nicholas ; ; Nowak, Kathleen E. ; ; Praggastis, Brenda L. ; ; Purvine, Emilie A. H. (ORCID:0000000320695594); ; Robinson, Michael (ORCID:0000000307663301); ; Strules, Jennifer ; ; Whitney, Paul D.
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Lauren E. Charles via DOE OSTI.GOV
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Multiple document representations from news alerts for automated bio-surveillance event detection

arXiv
2019 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85170112556

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Tuor, A.; Anubhav, F.; Charles, L.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier

Camera-based, mobile disease surveillance using Convolutional Neural Networks

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2019-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-2579
Contributors: Olatunde Madandola; Altansuren Tumurbaatar; Liangyu Tan; Saitaja Abbu; Lauren E. Charles
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PocketAID: The Pocket Atlas of Infectious Diseases Mobile Application

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2019-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-2579
Contributors: Bonnie Gale; Lauren Charles; Hamid Mansoor; Chen-Yeou YU
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Multiple Document Representations from News Alerts for Automated Bio-surveillance Event Detection

2019-02-17 | Preprint
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Lauren E. Charles

Sensalert: A real-time group and individual health tracking application

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
2018 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85052021142

Contributors: Huang, Z.; Wright, D.P.; Henry, M.J.; Charles, L.E.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier
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Text-based analytics for biosurveillance

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
2018 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-85045938092

Part of ISSN: 21903026 21903018
Contributors: Charles, L.E.; Smith, W.; Rounds, J.; Mendoza, J.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier
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Before the Battlefield: Competition Spurs Warfighter Innovations

JSTO in the News
2018-07 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: 1736024
Contributors: Charles, Lauren E. (ORCID:0000000307270479); ; Henry, Michael J.
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Lauren E. Charles via DOE OSTI.GOV

Epi Evident: Biosurveillance to Monitor, Compare, and Forecast Disease Case Counts

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2018-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-2579
Contributors: Natalie Tomaszewski; Meeshu Agnihotri; Huiwen Cheng; Ashutosh Bhadke; Michael Henry; Lauren E. Charles
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Machine Learning for Identifying Relevance to Biosurveillance in Multilingual Text

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2018-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-2579
Contributors: Qiaochu Chen; Lauren E Charles
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NBIC Biofeeds: Deploying a New, Digital Tool for Open Source Biosurveillance across Federal Agencies

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2018-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-2579
Contributors: Heather Baker; Asher Grady; Collin Schwantes; Emily Iarocci; Rachel Campbell; Gus Calapristi; Scott Dowson; Michelle Hart; Lauren E. Charles; Teresa Quitugua
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Wearable Sensor Application for Integrated Early Warning and Health Surveillance

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2018-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-2579
Contributors: Lauren E Charles; Devin P Wright; Zhuanyi Huang; Cree White; Fnu Anubhav; Yuanqing Jin; Michael Henry
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Multiple Document Representations from News Alerts for Automated Bio-surveillance Event Detection

2018-04 | Conference paper
OTHER-ID: 1809027
Contributors: Tuor, Aaron R. ; ; Charles, Lauren E. (ORCID:0000000307270479); ; Anubhav, Fnu
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Lauren E. Charles via DOE OSTI.GOV

ChemAnalyzer: A text analytics platform for chemical surveillance

Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Gaurav, Sanket; Roy, Tania; Zeng, Jiangfeng; Charles, Lauren E.; Henry, Michael J.; Han, Kyungsik; Corley, Courtney
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Design science methodology applied to a chemical surveillance tool

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85019599875

Contributors: Huang, Z.; Han, K.; Charles-Smith, L.; Henry, M.J.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier
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Studying Military Community Health, Well-Being, and Discourse Through the Social Media Lens

Lecture Notes in Social Networks
2017-09 | Other
Part of ISSN: 2190-5428
Contributors: Umashanthi Pavalanathan; Vivek Datla; Svitlana Volkova; Lauren Charles-Smith; Meg Pirrung; Josh Harrison; Alan Chappell; Courtney D. Corley
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Uncovering the relationships between military community health and affects expressed in social media

EPJ Data Science
2017-06 | Journal article
OTHER-ID: 1406768
Contributors: Volkova, Svitlana ; ; Charles, Lauren E. ; ; Harrison, Josh ; ; Corley, Courtney D.
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A Digital Tool for Open Source Biosurveillance across Federal Agencies

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2017-05 | Journal article
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Lauren E. Charles

Control and Cost-benefit Analysis of Fast Spreading Diseases: The case of Ebola

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2017-05-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Romarie Rosado Morales; Lauren Charles-Smith; Brent Daniel
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Novel Analysis and Visualization of Chemical Events for Public Health Surveillance

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2017-05-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Michael J. Henry; Lauren Charles-Smith; Kyungsik Han; Courtney D. Corley
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Soda Pop: A Time-Series Clustering, Alarming and Disease Forecasting Application

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2017-05-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Jeremiah Rounds; Lauren Charles-Smith; Courtney D. Corley
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Biosurveillance Using Clinical Diagnoses and Social Media Indicators in Military Populations

2017-02 | Report
Contributors: Courtney D. Corley; Svitlana Volkova; Jeremiah Rounds; Lauren E. Charles-Smith; Joshua J. Harrison; Joshua A. Mendoza; Keith S. Han
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Discourse, health and weil-being of military populations through the social media lens

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85020661656

Contributors: Pavalanathan, U.; Datla, V.; Volkova, S.; Charles-Smith, L.; Pirrung, M.; Harrison, J.; Chappell, A.; Corley, C.D.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier

Distributed Doc2Vec Models for Fine-Grained Classification.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop on Data-Efficient Machine Learning
2016-06-26 | Conference paper
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Lauren E. Charles

Social Media Analytics for Post-Disasters Disease Detection in the Philippines

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2016-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Lauren Charles-Smith; Corinne Ringholz; Benjamin Brintz; Courtney D. Corley
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Towards Influenza Surveillance in Military Populations Using Novel and Traditional Sources

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
2016-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Lauren Charles-Smith; Alexander Rittel; Umashanthi Pavalanathan; Courtney D. Corley
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Monitoring wildlife interactions with their environment: An interdisciplinary approach

Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
2015 | Journal article
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Lauren E. Charles

Using social media for actionable disease surveillance and outbreak management: A systematic literature review

PLoS ONE
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84947256159

Contributors: Charles-Smith, L.E.; Reynolds, T.L.; Cameron, M.A.; Conway, M.; Lau, E.H.Y.; Olsen, J.M.; Pavlin, J.A.; Shigematsu, M.; Streichert, L.C.; Suda, K.J. et al.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier
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Hematologic parameters and hemoparasites of nonmigratory Canada geese (Branta canadensis) from greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84898920620

Contributors: Charles-Smith, L.E.; Rutledge, M.E.; Meek, C.J.; Baine, K.; Massey, E.; Ellsaesser, L.N.; Deperno, C.S.; Moorman, C.E.; Degernes, L.A.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier
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Integrating multiple databases to evaluate the impact of weather on animal movements

North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2014 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Lauren E. Charles

Environmental and physiological factors contributing to outbreaks of cryptosporidium in coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) at the Duke Lemur Center: 1999-2007

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77956489467

Contributors: Charles-Smith, L.E.; Cowen, P.; Schopler, R.
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Detection of Salmonella in gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) during two relocation efforts in Florida

Chelonian Conservation and Biology
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-73949084145

Contributors: Charles-Smith, L.E.; Lewbart, G.A.; Aresco, M.J.; Cowen, P.
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Characterization of root-knot nematode resistance in <i>Medicago truncatula</i>

Journal of Nematology
2008 | Journal article
Contributors: Dhandaydham, Murali; Charles, Lauren; Zhu, Hongyan; Starr, James L.; Huguet, Thierry; Cook, Douglas R.; Prosperi, Jean-Marie; Opperman, Charles
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Characterization of root-knot nematode resistance in Medicago truncatula

Journal of Nematology
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-52249087964

Part of ISSN: 0022300X
Contributors: Dhandaydham, M.; Charles, L.; Zhu, H.; Starr, J.L.; Huguet, T.; Cook, D.R.; Prosperi, J.-M.; Opperman, C.
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Lauren E. Charles via Scopus - Elsevier

Phylogenetic Studies of Pasteuria penetrans Looking at the Evolutionary History of Housekeeping Genes and Collagen-like Motif Sequences.

North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
2005 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Lauren E. Charles

Phylogenetic analysis of Pasteuria penetrans by use of multiple genetic loci.

2005-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Charles L; Carbone I; Davies KG; Bird D; Burke M; Kerry BR; Opperman CH
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Lauren E. Charles via Europe PubMed Central
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