Professor Dr. Alex Mariakakis

Biography

Alex Mariakakis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, where he leads the Computational Health and Interaction (CHAI) lab. His research focuses on leveraging ubiquitous technologies such as smartphones and wearables to address health-related issues. By utilizing sensor data for momentary assessments and passive recordings, he employs signal processing and machine learning to generate digital biomarkers that reflect a person's physiology, context, and behavior. His work also explores intersections within ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, mobile interaction, user-centered design, and innovative sensing techniques. Additionally, he holds the position of Affiliate Scientist at KITE@UHN and is a Faculty Affiliate at T-CAIREM, reflecting his commitment to impacting the digital health research and clinical landscape in the Greater Toronto Area. His career path includes completing a joint postdoctoral role at Sage Bionetworks and the University of Washington after earning his PhD at the University of Washington under the supervision of Shwetak Patel and Jacob O. Wobbrock, and he has a double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University.

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