Postdoctoral Associate

Larry is a postdoctoral associate with the Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Larry has a diverse background, having received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (UVM) and Master’s in Conservation Biology (Antioch University New England).  He spent nearly a decade as a teacher-naturalist at North Branch Nature Center, connecting people with the natural world.

Larry completed his PhD in Computer Science at the niversity of Vermont in 2020 as a Graduate Fellow in the NSF IGERT Smart Grid program, with a certificate in Complex Systems. He developed methods for quantifying the risk to the power grid from cascading blackouts and created a model for understanding information flow in human conversation. As a postdoc, Larry will bring his AI and machine learning quantitative skills to monitoring wildlife by helping computers identify sounds and images of wildlife collected by cell phones, recorders, or camera traps with the R package, AMMonitor.

Publications

  • Clarfeld, L. A., Gramling, R., Rizzo, D. M., & Eppstein, M. J. (2021). A General Model of Conversational Dynamics and an Example Application in Serious Illness Communication. In review at PLOS One. (Preprint available at arXiv:2010.05164. 2020 Oct 11.)
  • Gramling, R., Straton, J., Ingersoll, L. T., Clarfeld, L. A., Hirsch, L., Gramling, C. J., Durieux, B. N., Rizzo, D. M., Eppstein, M. J., & Alexander, S. C. (2020). Epidemiology of Fear, Sadness, and Anger Expression in Palliative Care Conversations. Journal of pain and symptom management.
  • Ross, L., Danforth, C. M., Eppstein, M. J., Clarfeld, L. A., Durieux, B. N., Gramling, C. J., Hirsch, L., Rizzo, D. M., & Gramling, R. (2020). Story Arcs in Serious Illness: Natural Language Processing features of Palliative Care Conversations. Patient education and counseling, 103(4), 826-832.
  • Clarfeld, L. A., Hines, P., Hernandez, E., & Eppstein, M. (2019). Risk of cascading blackouts given correlated component outages. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 7(3), 1133-1144.
  • Manukyan, V., Durieux, B. N., Gramling, C. J., Clarfeld, L. A., Rizzo, D. M., Eppstein, M. J., & Gramling, R. (2018). Automated detection of conversational pauses from audio recordings of serious illness conversations in natural hospital settings. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 21(12), 1724-1728.
  • Durieux, B. N., Gramling, C. J., Manukyan, V., Eppstein, M. J., Rizzo, D. M., Ross, L. M., Ryan A. G., Niland, M. A., Clarfeld, L. A., Alexander, S. C., & Gramling, R. (2018). Identifying connectional silence in palliative care consultations: a tandem machine-learning and human coding method. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 21(12), 1755-1760.
  • Clarfeld, L. A., Eppstein, M. J., Hines, P. D., & Hernandez, E. M. (2018, June). Assessing risk from cascading blackouts given correlated component failures. In 2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Contact

Email:

laurence.clarfeld@uvm.edu

Website(s):
  1. Vermont Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit