NECSTSpecial Talk - From Science Fiction to Science: My Life as a Computational Psychiatrist
Alex D. Leow
Professor in Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering
University of Illinois - Chicago
Event will be online from Facebook
January 16th, 2023
12.30 pm
Contacts:
Marco Santambrogio
Research Line:
System architectures
Professor in Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering
University of Illinois - Chicago
Event will be online from Facebook
January 16th, 2023
12.30 pm
Contacts:
Marco Santambrogio
Research Line:
System architectures
Sommario
On January 16th, 2023 at 12.30 pm, a new appointment of NECSTSpecialTalk titled "From Science Fiction to Science: My Life as a Computational Psychiatrist" will be held online via Facebook by Alex D. Leow, Professor in Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.
In this talk I will attempt to "connect dots looking backwards" and share self-reflection on my career to date as both a computational researcher and a practicing psychiatrist.
To this end, I believe that recent advances in mobile and information technology will revolutionize the way we understand neurological and psychiatric disorders by enabling us to more passively and unobtrusively quantify their symptomatology out of the lab and in people's natural environment. To illustrate, I will introduce our recent work that seeks to unobtrusively turn smartphones into 'fitness trackers' for the brain.
In this talk I will attempt to "connect dots looking backwards" and share self-reflection on my career to date as both a computational researcher and a practicing psychiatrist.
To this end, I believe that recent advances in mobile and information technology will revolutionize the way we understand neurological and psychiatric disorders by enabling us to more passively and unobtrusively quantify their symptomatology out of the lab and in people's natural environment. To illustrate, I will introduce our recent work that seeks to unobtrusively turn smartphones into 'fitness trackers' for the brain.
Biografia
Dr. Leow is a tenured Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and an attending physician at the University of Illinois Hospital. Co-founder of the Computational Neuroimaging and Connected Technology (CoNeCt) lab at UIC, Dr. Leow is the principal investigator of the BiAffect study, the first scientific study that seeks to turn smartphones into “brain fitness trackers”, by inferring neuropsychological functioning using entirely passively-collected typing kinematics metadata collected from the virtual keyboard of a smartphone (i.e., not what you type but how you type it). The BiAffect study app now powers the first-ever crowd-sourced research study with an overarching goal of unobtrusively measuring mood and cognition in real-time using iPhones and Apple’s ResearchKit framework. The BiAffect study has been extensively featured in the news, including Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tonight, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press news, the Rolling Stone, IEEE EMBS society, WBEZ Public Radio, FreeThink, and TEDxChicago.
The event will be held online by Facebook.
The event will be held online by Facebook.
