Tim Althoff

Tim Althoff is an Associate Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Centered Computing.

His research focuses on behavioral data science, combining

• Data Science
• Natural Language Processing
• Social Computing
• Human-Centered AI
• Ethics & Fairness

to extract insights about health and well-being.

Recent publications highlight advancements in:

• Mental health support through AI
• Wearable sensor health monitoring
• Online community analysis
• Reproducibility in data science
• Public health interventions

with notable papers in ACL, Nature Machine Intelligence, and NeurIPS.

Scientific recognition includes:

• ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award
• WWW 2021 Best Paper Award
• Double ICWSM 2021 Best Paper Awards
• SIGKDD Dissertation Award 2019
• Fulbright Scholarship
• German National Merit Foundation

Actively mentoring postdoctoral researchers and seeking PhD students in areas like neural representation learning, NLP applications to psychology, and mobile health technologies through his Behavioral Data Science Group.