My research explores development through computational tools & methods 

I am a Senior Research Scientist in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. I am a developmental psychologist interested in early trajectories and predictors of social-communicative development in autism. Most recently, I have been collaborating with computer scientists to develop novel tools to objectively measure such behaviors in natural settings, and to capture novel dimensions of these behaviors, such as their intensity and timing. 

Together, my collaborators and I are forging a new multidisciplinary research area, which we call computational behavioral science. Our research vision is that we can transform how we measure, analyze, and understand behavior by leveraging advances in sensing and wearable technologies and computational modeling and analysis methods. The goal is to develop tools that can help us better detect, understand, and ultimately treat conditions such as autism.

Recent publications

Recent talks & activities
* denotes student co-authors
  • Chow, S.M., *Ou. L, *Ciptadi, A., *Prince, E., You, D., Hunter, M. D., Rehg, J. M., Rozga, A., & Messinger, D. S. (in press). Differential equation modeling approaches to representing sudden shifts in intensive dyadic interaction data. To appear in Psychometrika.
  • *Chong, E., *Chanda, K., *Ye, Z., *Southerland, A., *Ruiz, N., Jones, R. M., Rozga, A., & Rehg, J. M. (2017). Detecting Gaze Towards Eyes in Natural Social Interactions and Its Use in Child Assessment. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(3), 43.
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  • January 1, 2018: I am currently on leave from Georgia Tech to head up product development for Diligent Robotics, a venture-backed startup developing hospital service robots. 
  • PhD student Eunji Chong presented our work on Visual 3D Tracking of Child-Adult Social Interactions at the 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), Sep. 18-21, Lisbon, Portugal.

Get in touch with me

agata@gatech.edu

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Interactive Computing
85 5th Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30308

My office: Technology Square Research Building Rm.219
Office Phone #404-894-2304