Projects

Current research projects

Penn Health-Tech

"CogSpeech: Digital speech assessment for monitoring behavioral symptoms in dementia"

Goal: Develop a speech-based digital assessment toll for dementia that will provide reliable endpoints and improve patient engagement.

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

National Institute of Mental Health (with Northwell Health)

"Vital signs for psychosis: Personalized longitudinal markers of psychosis severity using automated speech and language analysis"

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders (with Center for Autism Research)

"Digitizing Human Vocal Interaction to Understand and Diagnose Autism" (1R01DC018289-01A1)

Goal: Identify and validate linguistic biomarkers to understand and diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorder via automatic analysis of conversational interaction.

Role on Project: Researcher

National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders (with University of California, Santa Barbara & Center for Autism Research)

"Computational linguistics for autism-related social skills: assessment for characterization and therapy (CLASS-ACT)" (1R03DC021774-01)

Goal: Leverage computational linguistics to identify sensitive, efficient, and scalable measures of social communication that can be used to inform intervention efforts for transition-aged youth on the autism spectrum.

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Penn Social Media Pilot Grant (with Center for Autism Research)

"Hashtag mining of black autistic girls' and women's experiences using machine learning, large language models, and quanlitative approaches"

Goal: Examine shifts in the frequency of hashtag use over time and compare topic and sentiment in posts by black autistic women vs. black autistic girls.

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Penn Social Media Pilot Grant (with Penn Psychiatry)

"The Spoken Word: Harnessing language and speech to predict mental health trajectories"

Goal: Identify unique features of language and speech that correlate with current and long-term mental health outcomes.

Role on Project: Co-Investigator

Past research projects

Alzheimer's Association

"Automated Speech Analysis of Digitized Neuropsychological Tests in AD" (AARF-21-851126, $174,395)

Goal: Develop automated speech and language biomarkers to understand and diagnose Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Department of Defense (with Penn Frototemporal Degeneration Center)

"Automated Speech Analysis in FTD Spectrum Disorders" (W81XWH-20-1-0531)

Goal: Develop and test automated linguistic markers in patients with FTD Spectrum disorders, for diagnostic screening and longitudinal tracking. 

Role on Project: Researcher

Roche (with Center for Autism Research)

"Roche Voice Biomarkers"

Goal: Identify and validate stable voice biomarkers to distinguish children and adolescents with ASD from typically developing controls, using computational linguistics and machine learning.

Role on Project: Researcher

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