Bio

CEO & Co-founder of thymia. At thymia we use voice, video and behaviour to objectively track mental health symptoms. (NB: Please do not send me connection requests without a message.) My background is predominantly in research, and I have a PhD & post-doc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Linguistics from University College London (2nd in world for Neuroscience). For the past 12 years, I have worked with various populations, both healthy people and patients with cognitive disorders (Alzheimer's, Aphasia, Schizophrenia, Depression etc), using language as a marker for their cognition. By language I mean both the physical properties of voice (loudness, intonation patterns etc) through to the actual content of what people say (semantics, but also structural complexity). In healthy people I can figure out what people find harder or easier to understand, and in people with cognitive disorders, I can use language as an assessment & treatment monitoring tool. I am experienced in both behavioural measures associated with language use, such as eye-tracking, reading and general reaction times, as well as neural measures, following brain activation patterns using fMRI & EEG. My specialist subject for my PhD was how people parse elliptical utterances, i.e. inferring meaning in the absence of linguistic input. I also have experience in the gaming industry, having worked for a gaming company to help them develop a video game where I used my linguistic knowledge to make the game levels progressively harder.