Francesca Bonin is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Ireland, working on Cognitive Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

She holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), a MSc. in Language Technologies and a B.A. in Digital Humanities from the University of Pisa (Italy).

Her research interests includes NLP, Social Signal Processing, Multimodal Interaction and AI. Recently she has been part of the IBM Debater Project, focusing on debating technology.

Before joining IBM, she has been focusing on Information Extraction and social signal processing from dialogues and meetings.

She has been co-chair of several workshops on Multimodal Interaction and she currently serves the community as program committee member of the main international conferences in NLP and Speech Technologies.

Oscar is a Research Assistant at UCL working on this project. He completed his BSc (Hons) in psychology at the University of Valencia (Spain), and his MSc in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). He then moved to Australia to pursue his PhD at the University of Southern Queensland. His thesis consisted of using the Behaviour Change Wheel framework to develop and pilot an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in university students. Oscar’s research focuses on health behaviour change. In particular, he is interested in physical activity and sedentary behaviour, with an emphasis on evidence synthesis and the development/evaluation of theory-based interventions.

Ailbhe is a Research Associate at UCL working on this project. Her PhD, completed at the University of Trento, Italy, focused on using more advanced research methodology and techniques for collecting and analysing data, from computer science disciplines, to study social behaviours and phenomenon. The aim was to examine psychological phenomenon, once carried out in the lab, in a wider social context, to be able to reliably and unobtrusively measure social behaviour, such as, communication and interaction through wearable sensors, social media and mobile phone data.

Prior to joining UCL, she worked for a digital marketing agency where she had the opportunity to apply knowledge from her research on understanding human behaviour to real life business cases. She has research experience and an interest in wide range of topics, such as, behaviour change interventions, computational methods of understanding personality, social networking and social media, crowdsourcing and the virtual workplace, organisational psychology and the role of nonverbal behaviour in social settings.

Debasis is a researcher at IBM Research Labs, Dublin, Ireland. He completed his PhD and postdoctoral research at the ADAPT centre, Dublin City University. His research interests primarily include incorporating term relationships, including the use of topic models and word/document vector embeddings, into retrieval and feedback models for improving search effectiveness. He is also interested in cross-language and multilingual document search, a particular example of which is the case of retrieving relevant information from a collection of code mixed documents.

He serves as the program committee member of top-tier conferences, e.g. SIGIR, NAACL, NLDB etc. He is also actively engaged in organizing workshops on recent topics in information retrieval and natural language processing.

As a researcher, he is keen to commercialize his research with industry partnerships. In the past, he was actively involved in managing academia-industry partnership projects.

Martin is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Ireland. He received his bachelor and master's degrees in computer science at the ENS in France. He graduated from the Université Paris-Saclay with a Ph.D in computer science in 2016, after working at LIMSI-CNRS on natural language inference. His research interests include question answering, textual entailment, and more generally topics pertaining to open domain semantics in the field of computational linguistics.

Emily is a Research Assistant at UCL working on this project. She completed an MSc in Health Psychology at UCL in 2017 and her research examined older adult health literacy, in relation to childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position. Prior to joining HBCP, Emily worked for a digital health start-up that provides an app for medication management and adherence. She has also worked on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, investigating workplace wellbeing through qualitative and quantitative research. She is interested in digital health and behaviour-change interventions to reduce health inequalities.

Yufang Hou is a research staff member at IBM Research Ireland and she is currently working on extracting information from scientific research papers in the smoking cessation domain. Her primary research interest lies in the the area of natural language processing (NLP) where she focuses on the tasks of natural language understanding in the discourse level, such as information status recognition, indirect anaphora resolution and coreference resolution. She is also interested in computational argumentation and information extraction. Before joining IBM, she was a Postdoc researcher at the department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University where she worked on information extraction across sentence boundaries and sentiment analysis in poems. Yufang completed her PhD at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) on unrestricted bridging resolution and she developed algorithms for bridging anaphora recognition as well as antecedent selection. Her PhD was funded by the Research Training Group Coherence in Language Processing at Heidelberg University.

Ella is working as a research assistant, focusing mainly on dissemination and engagement of the project outputs. She completed her BSc (Hons) at UCL in Human Sciences and her MSc also at UCL in Behaviour Change. Her final project was focused on understanding parents’ experiences of seeking advice about talking about weight with their children on an internet forum, in order to better understand how they can be supported in efforts to do so.

Eva is a PhD Student working with the Human Behaviour-Change Project (HBCP). Her research interests lie in the fields of decision-making and cognitive processes influencing the human-machine interaction. In particular, Eva is interested in users’ expectations of and trust in AI-driven systems such as the HBCP Knowledge System.

Eva completed a MA (Hons) in Psychology & Management at the University of St Andrews in 2017 and earned a MSc in Economic Psychology at Tilburg University in 2018. She then worked in programmatic advertising before joining UCL in 2019.

Charles Jochim is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Ireland. His research interests are generally in statistical natural language processing (NLP) and more specifically he has worked on multilingual information retrieval, patent search, text classification, information extraction, and argumentation mining.

At IBM, Charles has been a part of the Risk Management Collaboratory and most recently IBM's Project Debater aiming to debate humans on complex topics.
Charles obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Stuttgart and before that an MA in computational linguistics from Indiana University.

Candice Moore is a Research Assistant at UCL. Previously she has worked on a variety of research projects in developmental psychology, including a large-scale educational intervention, and completed an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences at UCL.

Emma is a Lecturer in Public Health at Brunel University and an Associate at UCL's Centre for Behaviour Change. She worked on the Human Behaviour-Change Project's behavioural science team from 2017-2020 and continues collaboration with the team. Emma is interested in using health psychology theory and principles to improve a broad range of public health issues, with specific interests in physical activity and technological interventions.

Patrick is a senior programmer at the EPPI-Centre, UCL Institute of Education. He is working on the new version of EPPI Reviewer software, ER5.

Previously Patrick worked within the finance industry building web applications for fund managers and quantitative analysts.

He has extensive experience within the commercial and academic sectors and a PhD in Financial Optimisation and has published in this area.

Dr Alison O’Mara-Eves is a Senior Researcher the EPPI-Centre, UCL Institute of Education.

Alison’s broad specialism is systematic review methods. There are two main strands within this theme: (1) developing and testing synthesis methods, with a particular interest in quantitative synthesis including statistical meta-analysis, and (2) evaluating the use of emerging text mining techniques for facilitating the production of systematic reviews. She also teaches Masters-level and short courses on research synthesis methods.

Alison’s has worked on over 30 systematic reviews and evidence syntheses across a range of topics. Her substantive interests primarily relate to social psychology, education, and public health. She is particularly interested in self-perceptions, wellbeing, and interventions for behaviour change.

Paulina is a PhD Student, working with the Human Behaviour-Change Project (HBCP). Her current research supports the development of a pilot ontology for mechanisms of action (MoAs; i.e. processes, mediating the influence of behaviour change techniques on behavioural outcomes) based on the behaviour change theories. The pilot ontology will be used to identify and iteratively annotate MoAs in published behaviour change interventions to develop automated information extraction algorithms. Moving forward, Paulina will continue to study BCT-MoA-behaviour links, with respect to the context of behaviour change interventions.

Before joining the HBCP team, Paulina completed a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at UCL in 2016, and earned a MSc in Risk, Economy and Society at the LSE in 2017.

Gillian is a Research Officer and systematic reviewer at UCL, Institute of Education. Her expertise in public health is founded on a career spanning media and communications, health care practice and public health research. She has four years’ experience in academia working on health related systematic reviews, stakeholder involvement in health related primary research and systematic reviews. Gillian has a research interest in accessibility to and the methods used to communicate health related information through the use of online methods. Further, how particular groups access and use online information, in particular social media, and its impact on health decisions and behaviours. Her research specialism is public involvement in health research with a particular interest in children’s participation in pharmaceutical and dental research and has a keen interest in developing involvement methods for stakeholders.

Clement is the Research Administrator at UCL helping to support and facilitate the work of the Human Behaviour-Change Project Team. Previously, he has worked in administration and marketing at other universities in London.

Clement completed his MSc in Language Sciences with Specialism in Linguistics with Neuroscience.

Dr Alison Wright is a Senior Research Associate, leading the team of behavioural science researchers working on the Human Behaviour Change project. Her research interests focus on applying psychological science to develop and evaluate behaviour change interventions. She has worked on a diverse range of topics, including treatment adherence, health care utilisation, physical activity after stroke and preventing occupational dermatitis in nurses

Silje is a Research Assistant on the Human Behaviour-Change Project (HBCP) and Theory Specification Project (TSP). Following her BSc (Hons) in Psychology obtained at the University of Manchester, Silje went on to do an MSc in Health Psychology at the University of Nottingham in 2017/2018, where she conducted research on the use of standardised anxiety measures for assessing dental fear and anxiety in paediatric populations. Her research interests include the use of Health Psychology theory and techniques to facilitate behaviour change, behaviour change intervention design and development, and using health psychology theory and techniques to improve a broad range of public health issues.