I am a senior data scientist at Ancera after completing my PhD at Drexel University.

Research Interests

1. Healthcare Informatics
2. Social Networks

Recent News

6/28/2023 - Won runner up for best paper award at IEEE-ICHI 2023.

11/1/2022 - Started a position as a senior data scientist at Ancera.

Recent Publications

M. Monselise, C.C. Yang, “Leveraging Social Support Types and Link Prediction for User Recommendation for Online Health Community in Pregnancy After Loss”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Houston, TX, 2023.

A. Jazayeri, M. Monselise, N. Jafari, N. Nikita, C.C. Yang, L.Y. Grace, “A Network-based Modeling Approach to Identify the Common Disease Classes in Patients with Late-stage Prostate Cancer”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Rochester, MN, 2022.

M. Monselise , C.C. Yang “I’m always in so much pain and no one will understand” - Detecting Patterns in Suicidal Ideation on Reddit, MAISoN Workshop, WWW ‘22 Companion: The Web Conference 2022 Proceedings, 2022

J. Greenberg, X. Zhao, M. Monselise, S. Grabus, and J. Boone, “Knowledge Organization Systems: A Network for AI with Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1–20, 2021

M. Monselise, C.H. Chang, C.C. Yang, “Detecting Topics and Sentiments of Public Concerns on COVID-19 Vaccines with Social Media Trend Analysis”, Journal of Internet Medical Research, September 2021.

M. Monselise and C.C. Yang, “Information Exchange in Online Health Communities Discussing COVID-19”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Victoria BC, Canada, August 2021.

C.H. Chang, M. Monselise , C.C. Yang, What Are People Concerned About During the Pandemic? Detecting Evolving Topics about COVID-19 from Twitter, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Oldenburg, Germany, Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2020.

M. Monselise and C.C. Yang, “Understanding the Social Support Exchange of a Pregnancy After Loss Online Support Group”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Oldenburg, Germany, Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2020.

M. Monselise, et al. “An Automatic Approach to Extending the Consumer Health Vocabulary.” Journal of Data and Information Science Vol 6.1 (2020): 2021.

M. Monselise, O. S. Liang, and C. C. Yang, “Identifying Important Risk Factors Associated with Vehicle Injuries using Driving Behavior Data and Predictive Analytics,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Xi’an, China, June 10 – 13, 2019.