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Career

· Assistant Professor, University of Washington2019–
· PhD Intern, Data Science, Microsoft2016–2016
· Software Engineering Intern In Research, Google2014–2014
· Graduate Student Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)2013–2013
· Software Engineering Intern In Research, Google2013–2013
· Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Stanford University2013–2018
· PhD Candidate, Stanford University2013–2018
· Software Engineering Intern, Google2012–2012
· Graduate Student Researcher, International Computer Science Institute2011–2012
· Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley2011–2012
· Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern2010–2013
· Student Research Assistant, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)2009–2011
· Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern2007–2010

Publications (119)

Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality
Nature · 2017
832
cited
Influence of Pokémon Go on Physical Activity: Study and Implications
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2016
544
cited
A Computational Approach to Understanding Empathy Expressed in Text-Based Mental Health Support
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2020
330
cited
Large-scale Analysis of Counseling Conversations: An Application of Natural Language Processing to Mental Health
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2016
315
cited
Human–AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support
Nature Machine Intelligence · 2022
302
cited
Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models
arXiv.org · 2022
183
cited
Are Language Models Actually Useful for Time Series Forecasting?
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2024
176
cited
Towards Facilitating Empathic Conversations in Online Mental Health Support: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
The Web Conference · 2021
173
cited
Online Actions with Offline Impact: How Online Social Networks Influence Online and Offline User Behavior
Web Search and Data Mining · 2016
168
cited
A Roadmap to Pluralistic Alignment
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2024
152
cited
Best practices for analyzing large-scale health data from wearables and smartphone apps
npj Digital Medicine · 2019
141
cited
How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2014
131
cited
Leveraging Routine Behavior and Contextually-Filtered Features for Depression Detection among College Students
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies · 2019
124
cited
Donor Retention in Online Crowdfunding Communities: A Case Study of DonorsChoose.org
The Web Conference · 2015
107
cited
Cognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
104
cited
Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 2021
103
cited
Facilitating Self-Guided Mental Health Interventions Through Human-Language Model Interaction: A Case Study of Cognitive Restructuring
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2023
98
cited
Sparselet Models for Efficient Multiclass Object Detection
European Conference on Computer Vision · 2012
92
cited
A Computational Framework for Behavioral Assessment of LLM Therapists
arXiv.org · 2024
74
cited
How Gamification Affects Physical Activity: Large-scale Analysis of Walking Challenges in a Mobile Application
The Web Conference · 2017
73
cited
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