Carrie Armel Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, United States

Innova AI is a Generative AI Copilot that helps organizations and individuals innovate better and faster.Ideation and design processes are currently analog and necessarily explore only some of the search space because humans are limited by time, tools, knowledge, inspiration, and output channels. Our mission is to maximize innovation potential and share this opportunity with humanity.

Animore leverages LLMs within online games to address mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression.• Leading a four person team to design and execute end-to-end custom research using a variety of mixed methods (surveys, interviews, secondary and market research, and preparing for usability tests, field studies, playtesting)• Advising on the application of behavioral principles to the game design, and developing a handbook and pipeline to streamline user research efforts

Palo Alto, California, United States

Carelon develops innovative digital health solutions as a subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. healthcare companies.• Conducted user research for an educational chatbot supporting underserved new mothers - including surveys, interviews, and secondary/demographic/market research, and oversaw related map construction. Wrote BRD.• Prototyped and demoed a functional maternal chatbot using Avaamo’s conversational AI platform, which included onboarding, the collection of current health… Show more Carelon develops innovative digital health solutions as a subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. healthcare companies.• Conducted user research for an educational chatbot supporting underserved new mothers - including surveys, interviews, and secondary/demographic/market research, and oversaw related map construction. Wrote BRD.• Prototyped and demoed a functional maternal chatbot using Avaamo’s conversational AI platform, which included onboarding, the collection of current health data, real time Q&A, and query retrieval of informational documents• Developed a proposal for the user support system for the Health OS platform containing 61M+ longitudinal patient records, and initiated a related professional talk series Show less

Story-based Entertainment Education (EE) has achieved widespread engagement and behavior change around the world for 50+ years. Using proven EE practices, our projects aimed to help address global challenges.• Led stakeholder interviews, a workshop, and grant writing for a show/podcast to boost sustainable business action• Developed a middle grade book series proposal to build youth competency in AI, food/water security, and other emerging issues

To help realize the vision of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all, PEEC sought to develop at Stanford University and beyond the creativity, collaboration, learning and leadership needed for the global energy transformation.• Led and collaborated on teams up to 12 people & ~$120K/year budgets, with multiple projects run in parallel • Project reach of ~80K unique users | $400K grants in addition to the ARPA-e Initiative (described below)UX Design and… Show more To help realize the vision of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all, PEEC sought to develop at Stanford University and beyond the creativity, collaboration, learning and leadership needed for the global energy transformation.• Led and collaborated on teams up to 12 people & ~$120K/year budgets, with multiple projects run in parallel • Project reach of ~80K unique users | $400K grants in addition to the ARPA-e Initiative (described below)UX Design and Research• Managed designers/creatives to develop UX/UI for proof of concept testing, prototyping, production• Employed qualitative/quantitative methods in the field, lab, and online: surveys, sensor data, interviews, experimentation (e.g., RCTs), web analytics (e.g., descriptive, A/B testing, mTurk)• Applied behavioral epidemiology, marketing, communications, education, and diffusion of innovation Product Management• For four web apps and a curriculum, drove all product development lifecycle phases (discovery, dev’t, launch)• Managed software engineers using Agile dev’t process, including product backlog and testing, timeline, budget• Designed and managed Stanford’s Energy Services Platform (ESP) to enable the implementation of the multiple web-based apps, online experimentation, and data collection at scale and cost-effectively. Conceived; gathered and specified requirements; managed timeline, budget, product backlog, and product testing.• Developed external technical resources: Included the Disaggregation Technology & Policy Paper and talk (30k+ downloads), Residential Energy Disaggregation Dataset (REDD) (kHz appliance data collected on 30+ homes for benchmarking algorithms), Home Energy Saving Action Database (vetted and normed details on 350+ actions to be used as recommendations in interventions), and Energy & Behavior Bibliographic Database (1,000+ citations). Show less

• Helped galvanize the Energy Behavior field, increase policy/funding support, and bridge tech and behavior• Led corporate partnerships: Google (assessed Google Power Meter), PG&E (spearheaded large data transfer for R&D)• Socialized new field: 70+ presentations plus advisory to organizations and leadership from gov’t (e.g., DOE, EPA, PUCs) and utility/trade/industry (e.g., Meta, People Power, American Gas Assn. Board). Advised grant making. • Convened multi-sector events:… Show more • Helped galvanize the Energy Behavior field, increase policy/funding support, and bridge tech and behavior• Led corporate partnerships: Google (assessed Google Power Meter), PG&E (spearheaded large data transfer for R&D)• Socialized new field: 70+ presentations plus advisory to organizations and leadership from gov’t (e.g., DOE, EPA, PUCs) and utility/trade/industry (e.g., Meta, People Power, American Gas Assn. Board). Advised grant making. • Convened multi-sector events: Co-founded/chaired (2007-9) the Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) Conference drawing ~500 people/year 2007-current. Held 4 mission-driven multi-stakeholder technical Workshops. Show less

The ‘Sensor, Energy, and Behavior Initiative’ leveraged energy technology like smart meters with behavioral approaches to maximize energy savings. It was one of ARPA-e’s 37 inaugural awards out of 3,700 applications. The Initiative encompassed 20 research projects and 15 investigators across 10 academic departments in 5 Schools – enabling it to span all major aspects of the energy technology-behavior ecosystem. Sequential Faculty Directors were Profs. Byron Reeves and Jim… Show more The ‘Sensor, Energy, and Behavior Initiative’ leveraged energy technology like smart meters with behavioral approaches to maximize energy savings. It was one of ARPA-e’s 37 inaugural awards out of 3,700 applications. The Initiative encompassed 20 research projects and 15 investigators across 10 academic departments in 5 Schools – enabling it to span all major aspects of the energy technology-behavior ecosystem. Sequential Faculty Directors were Profs. Byron Reeves and Jim Sweeney.• $5.5MM + $3.3MM (renewal) Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy & $500K California Energy Commission. +$335K PEEC, $40K Tom Kat Center, $10K Google and Tides Foundation.• Co-Founder/Project Director: Recruited and organized investigators, envisioned and led grant writing; led roadmap, reporting, site visits; ensured barriers and resources were addressed for all projects. Managed legal/contracts, IT, personnel, compliance (HIPAA & IRB); reviewed budgets/expenditures.• Business activities: Performed market research, scoped a dozen business models, developed pitch deck, led Cleantech Open Accelerator team (2016). Facilitated industry partnerships, worked with Stanford’s Office of Tech Licensing, collaborated with VCs.• Projects covered: Technology (wireless networking, segmentation, analytics, automation), Interventions (apps, VR, online games, incentives, community programs), and Evaluation/Resources (support databases, Twitter Explorer, diffusion modeling). Show less

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department Of Economics

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford Prevention Research Center

Phd & Ma, Joint Degree In Psychology And Cognitive Science, Neuroscience Concentration

Research Assistant, Psychology

Research Assistant, Neuropsychology

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology