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Behavioral Informatics for Mental Health
April 11, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am
The School of Public Health at Rutgers and Central South University in China are holding a presentation on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at 8 a.m. (EDT / UTC -4) as part of their Computational Mental Health Colloquium Series.
“Behavioral Informatics for Mental Health”
Presented by Vivek Singh, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers
From the event description: Approximately one in seven people globally, which equates to roughly 1 billion individuals, suffer from one or more mental or substance use disorders. As a result, there is a growing interest in developing automated or low-cost methods for triaging and supporting individuals experiencing psychosocial distress. The Behavioral Informatics Lab at Rutgers focuses on leveraging information technology to understand and assist human behavior. This presentation will highlight early research from the lab on developing fair and robust computational models for mental health. Specifically, the talk will cover novel approaches to utilizing digital traces of behavioral data (e.g., Google search history, YouTube logs, phone logs, and geo-traces) in combination with machine learning to automatically predict various facets of mental health. The talk will also address methods for auditing the fairness of these mental health algorithms across genders and revising them as necessary to ensure equity.
About the presenter: Vivek Singh is the founding director of the Behavioral Informatics Lab and an associate professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Irvine, and received post-doctoral training at MIT. His work has appeared in leading disciplinary and interdisciplinary publication venues (e.g., Science and the Association for Computing Machinery’s ACM Multimedia conference and CHI Journal) and has been covered by popular media (e.g., The New York Times, BBC, Wall Street Journal). He was selected as one of the “Rising Star Speakers” by ACM SIG-Multimedia in 2016, and he is actively involved with conference organization in similar areas.
The presentation is related to collaborations between Central South University and Rutgers School of Public Health, where collaboration co-lead Vincent Silenzio is a professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health. Silenzio received a Global Health Seed Grant from Rutgers Global Health Institute to initiate research and scholarship in this subject area.
Online via Zoom
Free and open to the public. Register in advance to attend (required). For more information, contact Vincent Silenzio at vincent.silenzio@rutgers.edu.