Submitted by A.S. Quenault on Mon, 20/01/2025 - 11:00
Dr Sofia Villar, Programme Leader at the BSU, has been appointed a Visiting Researcher at Google.
In this role, she will collaborate with PhD student Amy Lee, fellow Visiting Faculty Researcher Nina Deliu, and a multidisciplinary team of behavioral scientists and computer scientists on the Fitbit team. This collaboration will focus on the use of Fitbit data for assessing personalized health interventions using Reinforcement Learning.
This appointment underscores BSU's commitment to cutting-edge research that is relevant to industry. The collaboration is expected to generate valuable insights and high impact publications.
Sofia said:
"I am thrilled to join Google as a Visiting Researcher and contribute to the exciting work being done by the Fitbit team. This is a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with leading experts in the field of mobile interventions and digital experimentation and leverage my research expertise to advance our understanding of designing and analyzing modern experiments. I am particularly excited about the potential for this collaboration to make a real difference in the way digital interventions are developed and tested."