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Nii Tawiah, PhD

Nii TawiahAssistant Professor of Sociology
ntawiah [at] desu.edu   

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL                       
  • M.A. in Sociology, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC   
  • B.A. in Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra     

BIO & RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Tawiah is a computational sociologist in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Delaware State University. He has been actively involved in various initiatives such as the National Data Science Alliance (Education and Workforce Committee), South Big Data Hub, CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science and the All of Us Research Program.

EXPERTISE

  • Child Health
  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • South Big Data Innovation Hub
  • Data Science Institute (DSI), University of Delaware
  • AUC Data Science Initiative
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence     
  • Population Association of America                

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Exploring racial and secondary substance use differences in route of administration of opioid drugs: Analysis of the 2015-2019 treatment admission data. Journal of substance use and addiction treatment, 2024. Gilbert, L. R., Tawiah, N., & Adepoju, O. E.  
  • Childhood Environmental Instabilities and Their Behavioral Implications: A Machine Learning Approach to Studying Adverse Childhood Experiences. Behavioral Sciences, 2024. Priscilla Mansah Codjoe, Nii Adjetey Tawiah, & Daniel Alhassan
  • Promoting Equity in AI-Driven Mental Health Care for Marginalized Populations. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 2024. Tawiah, N., & Monestime, J. P.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

  • Moderator for the Second Lighting Talk Session and Poster Presentation: Predicting Analysis of Opioid Consumption Patterns Among Diverse Ethnic Cohorts Using Machine Learning. 2023 University of Delaware, Data Science Symposium, September 22, 2023, Newark, DE.
  • Workshop Instructor: Open Science and Artificial Intelligence in Health for the Second SMART-DART & CODATA/RDA Schools of Research Data Science (SoRDS) Workshop, September 14 – October 20, 2023, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
  • Technical Lead for the 2024 Research Affinity Cohort sponsored by AUC Data Science Initiative, NSF and NDSA, June 16 – 28, 2024.
  • Faculty Mentor for the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth x AUC Data Science Initiative 2024 Data Challenge, September 12 – October 30, 2024 (First Round).

GRANTS

  • Open Research and Environmental Justice: Assessing the Needs of Historically Underserved Early Career Researchers, 2024-2025; Co-PI
  • ACCEL Delaware-CTR, Mentoring Research Development Award (MRDA), 2024-2025; PI
  • South Big Data Innovation Hub, South Hub Partnership Nucleation Award, 2024-2025; PI
  • USDA-NIFA, “Ag-STEM Research Workforce Academy - A Potential for Developing Foods and Agricultural Workforce”, (1890 Center of Excellence for Student Success and Workforce Development), 2024-2025; Co-PI
  • USDA-NIFA, “Leveraging Consumer Trends and Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Developing Nutritionally Improved and Healthy Snacks,” 2024-2027; Co-PI
  • USDA-ARS, “US-Sub-Sahara Africa Scholars Program: Workforce Development and Opportunities in International Agriculture,” 2022-2025; Co-PI
  • USDA-NIFA, “Multi-institutional Data Science Training of Students in Food and Agricultural Sciences,” 2022-2024; Co-PI
  • Delaware State University, Center for Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant Award, “Introduction to Data Science in Classroom Education,” 2022; PI
  • USDA-AFRI, “Harnessing Data Science Techniques in Food Science Research,”  2021-2023; Consultant