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Behavioral Informatics for Mental Health
June 1, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research is holding a seminar at 12 p.m. on Thursday, June 1, 2023, as part of its Brown Bag Seminar Series. The following information is from the event description on the insitute’s website:
“Behavioral Informatics for Mental Health”
Presented by Vivek Singh, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers
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.
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.
Online via Zoom
Free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required. View the event listing on the Institute for Health calendar for Zoom access. For more information, contact Nicole Swenarton, Institute for Health, at nswenarton@ifh.rutgers.edu.