Dr. Chris Hinds

Biography

Chris Hinds holds a Robertson Foundation Fellowship in Digital Phenotyping at the Oxford University Big Data Institute. His research focuses on the development of novel digital phenotyping approaches applied to large cohorts. His group developed the Mezurio smartphone app and he is the principal investigator for the open-source Digital Biomarkers in Dementia project, co-funded by Roche and Lilly. His work aims to create smartphone-based active and passive assessments of cognition and daily function for the early identification of prodromal Alzheimer's Disease. He is also developing digital phenotyping approaches for Parkinson’s disease, mood, and cognition. His platform, True Colours, has collected over 1 million self-reports from 35,000 patients. Prior to joining BDI, Chris served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry and as the Head of Applications Development for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He has played a significant role in health-tech startups and has lectured extensively in the Oxford University Software Engineering Programme. His DPhil, undertaken at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, focused on methodologies for designing digital health technologies, particularly utilizing ethnographic methods. He also holds an undergraduate degree in Computation from the same department.

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