Rob Morris, Phd Email & Phone Number

Rob Morris, PhD is the co-founder and CEO of Koko — a tech nonprofit for mental health. Koko addresses the youth mental health crisis by meeting young people where they are — online — and providing free AI-based digital interventions. Koko has reached over 4 million young people and has worked directly with most major platforms, including Pinterest, TikTok, Tumblr, OpenAI, and Twitch.Rob’s interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, social computing, and digital interventions for mental health. Rob received his AB in psychology from Princeton University and his master's and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he helped develop emotionally intelligent AI systems and he designed a new form of digital cognitive therapy, designed to reach millions of people safely and effectively. Rob was also an entrepreneur in residence at Hopelab and a staff data scientist at Airbnb. At Airbnb, he helped develop AI systems for human labeling and human-machine collaboration. Rob has delivered numerous keynote speeches, as well as being a guest speaker has given talks at MIT, Microsoft, Northwestern, Columbia, UPenn, and Harvard, among others. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers, including two randomized trials. He is an award winning designer and his work has been featured in Wired, NPR, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post, among others. At Princeton, he worked with Daniel Kahneman and was the recipient of the E.E. Jones Memorial Prize and the Howard Warren Senior Thesis Prize. In 2012, he won an SXSW award for a behavioral modification device to help curb social media addiction.