Salvatore is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania working under H. Andrew Schwartz and Lyle Ungar. His primary research interest is community centered NLP: developing methods to measure relationships between individuals and their communities (e.g. US counties) using social media language. Salvatore is also a Data Scientist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH) working on machine learning applications to substance use, recovery, and stigma towards people who use substances.