Dr. Newson leads the development of cognitive and mental health tools at Sapien Labs. She is particularly interested in cross-disorder paradigms and the relationship between cognition and other mental attributes. She has worked previously on attention and memory and led the EEG lab at fragrance company Givaudan. She has a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Oxford University.

Dr. Mehta heads the Neuropharmacology Group in the Department of Neuroimaging at King’s College London where he is also Deputy Lead for the Neuroimaging Theme of the NIHR-Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Director of the IoPPN Centre for Innovative Therapeutics . His work is focused on on pharmacological neuroimaging and early stage clinical trials for psychiatric drugs.

Dr. Neil Leibowitz oversees the quality of care provided by therapists and psychiatrists on the Talkspace platform. He was previously a Senior Behavioral Health Medical Director at United Healthcare and faculty member at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz also taught Health Law at St. Francis College and is on the board of VIP Community Services, a large FQHC in the Bronx. He received his MD from New York Medical College and his JD from the New York University School of Law.

Dr. Shriki heads the Computational Psychiatry Lab and serves as the head of the Dept. of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His lab applies mathematical analyses and machine learning to EEG to develop neuromarkers of clinical disorders and novel approaches to brain computer interfaces and neurofeedback. He has a PhD in computational neuroscience from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Theresa Nguyen’s focus at Mental Health America is on improving access to mental health care through data and digital based innovations. She also oversees MHA’s research, exploring the integration of peers into research, the use of technology to support people in the earliest stages of recovery, and how large scale data provides insight into gaps in supports systems across the country. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience as a clinician, educator and advocate.

Dr. Miskovic’s research spans the identification of correlates of mental disorders to the interplay of emotion, attention and motivation. He uses electrophysiological and behavioral methods to examine the ways in which human perceptual systems tune to basic affective properties in order to selectively focus attention. He has also studied the changes in cortical activity across development.

Dr. Yukiko Uchida is based at the Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University. As a cultural psychologist, she studies the psychological mechanisms behind the experience of emotions like happiness. Her cross-cultural studies also examine how a participation in meaningful cultural practices fosters these psychological processes. Uchida is a 2019-20 Berggruen fellow at CASBS.

Dr. Uma Vaidyanathan is part of the RDoC initiative to advance precision mental health at the NIMH. Her research focuses on fusing behavioral neuroscience, programming, and statistics to map the boundaries of normal and abnormal human behavior, and the philosophy of science and measurement issues underlying this work. She also serves as a member of the Wellcome Trust’s Mental Health Priority Area’s Strategic Advisory Board.

Dr. Schueller is a clinical psychologist and mental health service researcher whose work focuses on making mental health resources more available and accessible, especially through the use of technology. This includes the development, evaluation, and implementation of web- and mobile-based interventions. He also serves as the Executive Director of One Mind PsyberGuide, a project the aims to empower consumers to make informed choices around digital mental health products.

Dr. Thiagarajan’s research focuses on understanding structures of brain activity in EEG and their relationship to mental and cognitive outcomes. She has expertise in complex systems and signal processing and has worked across a wide range of areas of neuroscience from molecular, cellular and neural network physiology in cell cultures, rodents and monkeys to human ECoG and EEG. She has also previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry developing frameworks for strategic scientific management of R&D.