Plenary Speaker
Alex Leow, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
With both a doctoral degree in applied mathematics and a medical board certification in adult psychiatry, Dr. Leow is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an attending physician at the University of Illinois Hospital. Co-director of the Computational Neuroimaging and Connected Technology (CoNeCt) lab at UIC, Dr. Leow is the principal investigator of the BiAffect study, the first scientific study that seeks to turn smartphones into “brain fitness trackers”, by inferring neuropsychological functioning using entirely passively-collected typing kinematics metadata collected from the virtual keyboard of a smartphone (i.e., not what you type but how you type it). The BiAffect study app now powers the first-ever crowd-sourced research study with an overarching goal of unobtrusively measuring mood and cognition in real-time using iPhones. Dr. Leow and the BiAffect study have been extensively featured in the news, including Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tonight, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Rolling Stone, IEEE Pulse, CBS News, IEEE Spectrum, NPR All Things Considered, FreeThink, and TEDxChicago.
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Nice! I was looking for something like this!
I would love to test this long covid and pain patients.