Driving the future of mental health via privacy-sensitive objective mental health assessment and precision personalized intervention.

HealthRhythms makes it easy to measure and care for everyone’s mental health. By seamlessly gathering data about everyday behaviors and routines (our “social rhythms”), HealthRhythms provides a more comprehensive and clinically grounded understanding of mental wellbeing. Our solution leverages deep machine learning and predictive analytics to create novel health assessments and just-in-time personalized interventions that improve the care delivery experience for patients, health plans, payers and research organizations. HealthRhythms was founded by a unique team of mental health care pioneers and information scientists at the forefront of health sensing. For more information visit us at www.healthrhythms.com.

I started at Cornell via a prestigious Marie Curie fellowship at Dr. Gay's Interaction Design Lab, and continued on at Dr. Choudhury's People Aware Computing lab as a Research Associate. During this time, I led a team of PhD candidates, graduate and undergraduate students and forged interdisciplinary collaborations with University of Pittsburgh, Weill Medical College and University of Washington among others. Achievements during this time include: - Established a new field, Circadian Computing, focused on biological models of mental health & performance - Led the winning team for the MoodRhythm app in the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge ($100,000 prize)- Published over 30 scientific papers in leading peer-reviewed venues- Investigated the role of technology in supporting and disrupting the lives of people with bipolar disorder- Developed novel human-centered methods for designing technology for severe mental illness- Won 3 funding grants (>$200K)- Created MoodRhythm, a ubiquitous system to support stability of circadian rhythms for individuals with affective illness,- Developed Clockwise, a low-level smartphone tool to detect underlying sleep patterns, circadian rhythms and cognitive states- Created MoodLight, an ambient meditative biofeedback lighting system- Developed a new area investigating the integration of personal digital information into computer games- Designed and piloted Biogotchi, a living plant feedback system- Filed 2 patents related to circadian computing

I developed & delivered a module focusing on HCI in real world healthcare settings for TCD's Health Informatics Masters Program. An emphasis was placed on engagement with real clinical and patient issues. Group projects focused on issues encountered by real patients, who kindly volunteered their time. Outputs included the creation of realistic composite patient personas that were made available online via the Irish Health Service and the design of 4 systems to address challenges experienced by patient volunteers. Participating students gained a number of new skills including knowledge how to: • Identify key user issues in the design of information communication technologies• Apply appropriate methods to identify user requirements in a system• Apply appropriate methods to evaluate the usability of a system• Design a computing technology based on Norman’s design principles • Evaluate a computing technology based on Jacob Nielson’s Usability Heuristics • Apply knowledge of social and psychological processes to the design of technology for use in healthcare• Evaluate how technology can mediate in the patient-doctor relationship• Identify how personal technologies might be employed to enhance patient care / well being• Identify design features that contribute to health, safety, well-being and productivity

Gained insight into the day-to-day running of a student counseling service in Trinity College DublinSecured funding for and led the development of 2 research projects in mental healthcare. Contributed to ProYouth EU project.Led Trinity’s participation in Research-Enabled Learning strand of DRHEA collaboration culminating in the development of research guides, organization of research seminars and 2 Undergraduate research conferences.Developed systems following a user-centred design process to support therapeutic interventions, student learning.Provided academic advice to postgraduate and undergraduate students and delivered numerous academic workshops.

I was a core member of the MindGames group led by Dr. Gary McDarby at Media Lab Europe, the European research partner of MIT Media Lab. I collaborated in an interdisciplinary team investigating the application of biomedical engineering, computer gaming and interactive technologies in healthcare.