Recent & Upcoming Talks

2026

Controlling Therapeutic Language Generation in Large Language Models
Oct 1, 2026 9:00 AM
14th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)
Causal Activation Interpretability Mapping for Understanding Therapeutic Reasoning in Large Language Models
Oct 1, 2026 9:00 AM
14th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)
Personalized Behavioral Networks from Passive Smartphone and Wearable Sensing Outperform Raw Features for Suicidal Ideation in Major Depression
Aug 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Society for Ambulatory Assessment Annual Meeting (symposium presentation)
Invited Presentation: International Webinar Series on the Responsible Uses of Conversational AI in Psychiatry
Jun 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Amsterdam UMC and University of Helsinki
Invited Panelist on AI Safety
Jun 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Society for Digital Mental Health Annual Meeting
Generative AI for Mental Health: An Academic Perspective on Development, Evidence, and Regulation
Jun 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Staff briefing for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)
Invited Panelist: Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems (SAIL 2026)
May 1, 2026 9:00 AM
SAIL 2026
From Concept to Clinic: Developing and Evaluating Therabot, the First Generative AI Psychotherapy Chatbot
May 1, 2026 9:00 AM
TimelyCare (invited continuing-education presentation)
Keynote Address: National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Meeting
Apr 1, 2026 9:00 AM
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Digital Mental Health: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Apr 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School
Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Stanford University School of Medicine
Mar 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Stanford University School of Medicine
Keynote Presentation: AI and the Future of Well-Being Virtual Summit
Mar 1, 2026 9:00 AM
International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA)
Invited Presentation: Stanford Mental Health Technology and Innovation Hub
Mar 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Stanford University
Invited Presentation: Mobile & Electronic Health Affinity Research Collaborative (ME-ARC)
Mar 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Center for Behavioral Science Research, Boston University
Developing and Testing the First Generative AI Psychotherapy for Mental Health over 6.5 Years
Mar 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Conference
Invited Presentation: North American Society for Psychotherapy Research (NASPR) Student Webinar
Feb 1, 2026 9:00 AM
NASPR
Invited Presentation: AI in Mental Health Seminar Series
Feb 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Parent-Infant Research Institute (PIRI), Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
Testimony on Senate Bill 640-FN (Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Care)
Jan 1, 2026 9:00 AM
New Hampshire Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee
Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jan 1, 2026 9:00 AM
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

2025

Fireside Chat: Use of Generative AI in Mental Health
Dec 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Technology in Psychiatry Summit (TIPS)
Invited Presentation: FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee Meeting on Generative AI-Enabled Digital Mental Health Medical Devices
Nov 1, 2025 9:00 AM
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Invited Panelist: The Final Frontier: Breakthroughs in Brain Science
Nov 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Innovations in Medicine and Healthcare Summit
An Academic Perspective on Developing and Regulating Generative AI for Mental Health
Nov 1, 2025 9:00 AM
American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discussion
Invited Presentation: University of Oxford
Oct 1, 2025 9:00 AM
University of Oxford
Invited Presentation: AI in Behavioral Healthcare
Oct 1, 2025 9:00 AM
National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) Webinar
Invited Presentation (with Michael V. Heinz): AHA Speaker Series
Oct 1, 2025 9:00 AM
MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dartmouth Grown Solutions: Technology & AI
Oct 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Symposium: A Global Turning Point: Why Youth Well-Being Is in Crisis and What We Must Do About It (Dartmouth College and UNDP Human Development Report Office)
Building the Future of AI Therapy: Over Six Years of Rigorous Development and Validation of a Generative AI Psychotherapy Chatbot
Oct 1, 2025 9:00 AM
e-Mental Health International Collaborative (eMHIC), invited fireside chat
Therabot: Over Six Years Developing and Evaluating the First Generative AI Psychotherapy Chatbot
Sep 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs), Northwestern University
Invited Presentation: Center for Digital Mental Health
Sep 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Massachusetts General Hospital
Invited Presentation (with Roy Perlis): Real-World AI in Healthcare Symposium
Sep 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Duke Institute for Health Innovation / Health AI Partnership
Automatic Descriptive Classification of Self-Reported Traumatic Experiences Using a Pre-Trained Large Language Model
Aug 1, 2025 9:00 AM
13th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)
Evaluating Therabot: A Randomized Control Trial Investigating the Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Generative AI Therapy Chatbot for Depression, Anxiety, and Eating Disorder Symptom Treatment
Aug 1, 2025 9:00 AM
13th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)
Keynote (Trailblazers Session): From Passive Insights to Proactive Personalized Care: The Synergy of Passive Sensing and Generative AI in Mental Health
Aug 1, 2025 9:00 AM
13th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)
Invited Presentation: Center for Behavioral Health and Technology
Jul 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Invited Panelist: Harnessing the Power of AI to Enable Highly Personalized Anytime/Anywhere Mental Health and Substance Use Care
Jul 1, 2025 9:00 AM
IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH)
Generative AI for Mental Health Treatment (Therabot): Presentation to Maine State Legislators
Jun 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Maine State Legislature
Keynote: Building the Future of AI Therapy: Six Years of Rigorous Development and Validation of a Generative AI Psychotherapy Chatbot
May 1, 2025 9:00 AM
International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Global Addiction Therapeutics Innovation Day (GATID 2025)
Developing the First Fully Generative AI for Psychotherapy: A 5+ Year Journey to a Landmark Trial
May 1, 2025 9:00 AM
International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED), invited plenary session
Comparing Objective and Subjective Sleep Measures in Major Depressive Disorder: A Longitudinal Study Using Phone Algorithms, Wearable Sensors, and Self-Report
May 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Society for Ambulatory Assessment Annual Meeting
A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment
May 1, 2025 9:00 AM
American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting (general session)
Invited Presentation: Division of Continuing and Professional Studies
Mar 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Palo Alto University
Invited Presentation: Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Mar 1, 2025 9:00 AM
Washington University in St. Louis