Professor
College of Letters & Science | Department of Psychology
Hometown: Smithtown, NY
John Curtin’s laboratory focuses on the development and implementation of digital therapeutics, which are software programs or “apps” that prevent, manage, or treat disease including substance use disorders and other mental illness. Digital therapeutics can provide empirically-supported interventions, illness and treatment management tools, and services to enhance peer support and communications with care providers. He primarily focuses on algorithm development for temporally precise psychiatric risk prediction (e.g., moment by moment relapse risk prediction; efficient and early psychiatric screening) and “just-in-time” personalized interventions that adapt to both characteristics of the patient and their moment in time. To this end, he combines analytic approaches from machine learning with novel, highly informative signals (e.g., geolocation ;cellular communications; social media activity; physiology via wearable biosensors) derived by passive personal sensing.
Talks:
A 'Smart' Recovery Monitoring and Support System for Continuing Care for Substance Use Disorders
We describe the development and evaluation of a substance use recovery monitoring and support system that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to detect the probability of relapse and to recommend personalized (to both the person and that moment in time) supports and activities to lower risk.