OVERVIEW: The Department of Psychiatry and its Mental Health Tech Center formed an initiative in Fall 2017 to increase research collaborations between psychiatry and engineering. Psychiatry Faculty have created projects that attempt to problem solve an unmet challenge in the clinic or in research. The goal is to address the topic through an engineering solution. Students who are interested in this program can review the list of available projects and their descriptions below. The Engineering Psychiatry Research Program (EPRP) Fellowship is a quarterly unpaid research opportunity for ECE undergraduate and graduate students. Students can receive research credit for their participation via ECE 199/299. Students will have access to the tutors at the ECE Makerspace as well as Ph.D. students in Machine Learning and Data Science field.
TIME COMMITMENT: 10 hours weekly for 4 credits of ECE 199/299. 5 hours weekly for 2 credits of ECE 199/299.
BACKGROUND: UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering has world renowned faculty and resources in engineering, with several thousand students participating in several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. As part of their coursework, these students could lend their talents to creating solutions to problems psychiatry faculty and trainees face in clinical care and in research. Potential solutions might involve novel devices, diagnostic tools, software, new ways of analyzing data such as through machine learning, robotics, and many others. It is our hope that, by linking students with identified problems and potential mentors in psychiatry, this effort will generate novel collaborations that could form the basis of new research projects, grant proposals, intellectual property and/or start up companies.
TIMELINE:
The ECE Department is very pleased to announce that the EPRP application for Spring 2020 is now OPEN.
January 22, 2020: Intern application DUE at 11:59 PM.*
January 23, 2020: Intern application/information sent to faculty
Early February: Faculty interviews applicants.
Mid February: All applicants notified of application status.
Spring 2020: Students enroll in research credit courses and start working on projects.
*Students can submit only one application per year and select a maximum of one project.
SPRING 2020 PROJECTS
FACULTY MENTOR |
PROJECT TITLE |
|---|---|
| Alison Moore |
1. Voice Assistant for Alcohol and Medication Risks |
| Andre Der-Avakian |
1. Alcohol drinking monitor for rodents 2. Headmount for securing EEG recording hardware on rodents |
| Camille Nebeker |
1. Technologies for Older Adults |
| Colin Depp |
1.
Examining cognition and mobility in aging with machine learning |
| Eric Granholm |
1. Automated Therapy Fidelty 2. Pupillometry using RGB Cameras |
| Janis Jenkins |
1. Socioemotional Wellbeing and Mobile Application Technology among Adolescents (SWAMATA) |
| Jessica Bomyea |
1. Developing an ability-responsive, mobile cognitive training interface for individuals with affective symptoms |
| Mark Ettenhofer |
1.
Eye tracking in VR for diagnosis of neurological conditions |
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1. Acute effects of NMDA receptor antagonist, memantine, on auditory learning and neurophysiologic biomarkers in schizophrenia |
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1. Developing real time closed loop cognitive brain computer interfaces 2. Understanding brain signatures of reward and sensory / cognitive expectation |
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| 1. How does lifespace relate to physical, mental and cognitive health? |
SPRING 2019 PROJECTS
FACULTY MENTOR |
PROJECT TITLE |
|---|---|
| Bloss, Cinnamon |
1. Impact of Privacy Environments for Personal Health Data on Patients |
| Depp, Colin |
1. Integrating Signals from On-Body and External Sensors to Predict Cognitive Aging |
| Ettenhofer, Mark |
1. Eye Tracking and Virtual Reality for Traumatic Brain Injury 2. Eye Tracking and Virtual Reality for Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Granholm, Eric |
1.
Automated psychotherapy fidelity rating |
| Kaufman, Chris |
1. A smartphone app to monitor sleep in older adults |
| Mausbach, Brent |
1. Caregiver Project |
| Mishra, Jyoti |
1. Designing Haptic Feedback Control for Brain States |
| Moore, Alison |
1. Online screening and brief intervention for seniors with alcohol problems 2. Identifying alcohol medication risks |
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1. Google Assistant for Cognitive Rehabilitation |
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| 1. Development/optimization of automatic rodent behavioral box | |
| 1. Leveraging Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Big Data Investigations of Cognition in At-Risk Populations |
SPRING 2018 PROJECTS
FACULTY MENTOR |
PROJECT TITLE |
|---|---|
| Bagot, Kara |
1. A Mobile Health Intervention for Adolescent Cannabis Use |
| Granholm, Eric |
1. Automated voice recognition therapy and symptom ratings in schizophrenia 2. Smartphone pupil dilation measurement to detect Alzheimer's disease |
| Jenkins, Janis |
1. Mobile Health Technology for Middle School Students |
| Marcotte, Thomas |
1. Tracking eye movements during acute cannabis use 2. Detecting THC and other cannabinoids using non-invasive biosensors |
| McEwen, Sarah |
1. Movement based cognitive training 2. Simultaneous exercise and memory training for MCI patients |
| Mishra, Jyoti |
1. Performance evaluations of real-time processing system for electrophysiological and behavioral signals |
| Moore, Raeanne |
1. Mobile intervention to optimize social engagements 2. Alexia for Cognitive Rehabilitation |
| Owens, Robert |
1. Actigraphy in the Intensive Care Unit 2. Freshmen Sleep and Health (FRoSH) Study |
| Twamley, Elizabeth |
1. CogSMART app |
