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Behavioral Health Next Summit at Cornell Tech

Dr. Choudhury recently hosted the Behavioral Health Next Summit at Cornell Tech, bringing together researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and care delivery organizations for a two day conference on mental health and technology.

Dan Adler's paper on workplace sensing technologies in the Cornell Chronicle.

The Cornell Chronicle has written a story about our recent work on workplace sensing technologies. You can check out the full paper here!

Dan Adler writes in Fast Company on AI in mental health

Dan Adler has published an editorial in Fast Company on the responsible use of AI in mental healthcare.

Tanzeem Choudhury elected to the SIGCHI Academy

Dr. Choudhury was elected into the SIGCHI Academy -- an honorary Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. More information here.

Joey Castillo's work featured on Hackaday

Joey's work on reverse-engineering watch displays was featured on Hackaday!

Congratulations to Alex on finishing their PhD!

Alex will continue in academia as an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing.

Congratulations to Vincent on finishing their PhD!

Vincent will become a Data Scientist at Verily Life Sciences.

PuffPacket featured in Cornell Chronicle

PuffPacket, a new tool can unobtrusively monitor electronic cigarette inhalations, has been featured in Cornell Chronicle and TechCrunch.

Presentation at the Frontier of AI-Assisted Care (FAC) Scientific Symposium

Vincent will be presenting the work on Developing Clinically Interpretable Machine Learning Models to Predict Fine-Grained Symptom Trajectory of Schizophrenia and Identify Patients At Risk at the Frontier of AI-Assisted Care Scientific Symposium.

Congratulations to Jean on finishing Ph.D. and starting as postdoctoral fellow!

Jean finished his Ph.D. in the summer of 2019 and started as postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.

BoostMeUp featured in NewScientist

BoostMeUp has been featured in NewScientist.

Tanzeem Choudhury named ACM Distinguished Member!

Tanzeem Choudhury has been named an ACM Distinguished Member for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing.

AlertnessScanner featured on multiple media!

AlertnessScanner has been featured in Cornell Cronicle, The Cornell Daily Sun, and New Atlas!

Congratulations to Tauhidur on finishing Ph.D. and starting as faculty!

Tauhidur finished his Ph.D. in the winter of 2017 and started as assistant professor at UMass Amherst.

Congratulations to Saeed on finishing Ph.D. and starting as faculty!

Saeed finished his Ph.D. in the summer of 2017 and started as assistant professor at Penn State.

Congratulations to Tanzeem for Receiving 10-Year Impact Award!

Tanzeem received Pervasive 10 Year Impact Award at UbiComp 2016.

Best Paper Award at UbiComp 2016!

Paper "EmotionCheck: leveraging bodily signals and false feedback to regulate our emotions." got Best Paper Award at UbiComp 2016.

Best Paper Award at MobileHCI 2016!

Paper "Mobile Manifestations of Circadian Rhythms of Attention." got Best Paper Award at MobileHCI 2016.

Congratulations to Tauhidur Rahman on winning 2016 Google PhD Fellowship!

PhD student Tauhidur Rahman won the 2016 Google PhD Feloowship in Mobile Computing.

Fortune Tech Report on Apps for Mental Health

Professor Choudhury was interviewed by Fortune The head-scratching reason there's no mental health apps.

BodyBeat

Project BodyBeat has been featured in NewScientist, MIT Technology Review and Wall Street Journal.

MIT Technology Review on MyBehavior

MyBehavior was reported by MIT Technology Review A Health-Tracking App You Might Actually Stick With.

MIT Technology Review on DoppleSleep

DoppleSleep was reported by MIT Technology Review Got Sleep Problems? Try Tracking Your Rest with Radar.

Work Highlighted by The Economist

Work on bipolar disorder was highlighted by The Economist Making cruel unusual.

Bill Gates Visit

People-Aware Computing group showed a demo of BodyBeat to Bill Gates during his visit to Cornell.

Publication in The Economist

Economist article on Teaching old microphones new tricks.

New Grant!

Newest PAC lab grant and project (we are working on the Stress phone part): http://t.co/HbCQczc8zE

Keynote Talk

PAC Lab Director Tanzeem Choudhury will be delivering one of the keynotes at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders

Winner of Open mHealth

The MoodRhythm project has won the $100K Heritage Open mHealth Challenge!