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Michelle Gayle Newman is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University. Her work focuses on mental health, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and leveraging AI for emotion understanding and mental disorder interventions. She actively collaborates on NSF-funded projects like the Open Data Infrastructure for Bodily Expressed Emotion and mobile technology-based mental health support for college students.
Her research interests include generalized anxiety disorder, OCD diagnostic features, and cross-cultural mental health symptomology. Recent work explores NLP applications for therapy fidelity, chatbots for mental health accessibility, and machine learning models for anxiety prognosis.
- Projects: 4 active/completed grants including AI-driven emotion datasets and mobile mental health interventions.
- Publications: Over 215 peer-reviewed articles, with 2025 contributions focused on CBT automation, chatbot efficacy, and OCD diagnostics.
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams in computer science (Wang/Li/Adams groups) and mental health (Wilfley/Eisenberg).
