People

People
AMP Lab - Collaborators

Director

Daniel Fulford, PhD

Curriculum Vitae - NIH Biosketch

Dr. Fulford conducts lab-based and ambulatory studies to better understand dysregulated motivation and emotion in psychopathology. He uses smartphones as tools for experience sampling and behavioral sensing (i.e., continuous, unobtrusive measurement from smartphone sensors), including real-time assessment and intervention research. A particular focus of this work is on the prediction of momentary states, including of social isolation and loneliness.
Dr. Fulford holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami and a BA in psychology from UCLA. He joined Boston University (BU) following a career development award through the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute where, among other things, he focused on mental health informatics research. Dr. Fulford is currently Assistant Professor in the departments of Rehabilitation Sciences, Occupational Therapy, and Psychological & Brain Sciences, and is affiliated with Mental Health Counseling/Behavioral Medicine, Behavioral Neuroscience, and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at BU. He is PI on grant-funded projects focused on human motivation and social dynamics using mobile assessment and intervention. He has served as grant reviewer at the NIH and NSF, and is a consulting editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and for the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) - Mental Health.

Post-Doctoral Associate

Jasmine Mote, PhD

Curriculum Vitae; Website: jasminemote.com

Dr. Mote is a post-doctoral research associate in the AMP Lab. She is interested in understanding and improving the social and emotional lives of people with serious mental illness. Her work attempts to answer questions such as: What motivates us to be social? What do the social lives of people with serious mental illness look like, and how can they be improved? How do people with serious mental illness experience pleasure, and what strategies can help them experience more? How can being more specific about how we feel help us achieve our goals? She is interested in the development and evaluation of novel psychosocial treatments that address loneliness, social and community functioning, and physical health outcomes for people with serious mental illness. She is also interested in the ways that mobile technologies can be utilized to help better understand and address these concerns in people with and without mental illness. She received a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in psychology from Oberlin College.

Graduate Students

Samuel Abplanalp, BA
Curriculum Vitae

Sam is a fourth-year PhD student in the Rehabilitation Sciences program at Sargent College. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Purdue University at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, IN. He is mainly interested in the application of sophisticated quantitative methods (e.g., structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, bifactor modeling) to better understand psychological constructs and phenomena, particularly relating to psychopathology and serious mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia). A secondary interest of Sam's focuses on the interface between pain and motivation, and how we can use pain to better understand motivational processes.

Emma Weizenbaum, MA

Emma is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology who works with Dr. Alice Cronin-Golomb in the Vision and Cognition Lab at BU. Her research interests center on ways to optimize assessment and treatment of transdiagnostic deficits such as weaknesses in working memory, motivation, and initiation. She works with Dr. Fulford on developing innovative ways of measuring cognition and the factors that shape how we use it through ecological momentary assessment and smartphone technology. See Emma's full bio on the Vision & Cognition Lab website.

Arti Gandhi, BA

Arti is a first year PhD student in the Rehabilitation Sciences program. She is also a recent graduate of the Doctor of Occupational Therapy program at BU. She is interested in applying EMA methods to better understand how social motivation deficits unfold on a day-to-day basis among individuals with psychosis. She hopes to also explore the efficacy of smartphone-based applications for remote treatment and assessment of social functioning impairments in this population. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, exercising/fitness, and finding as many green spaces throughout Boston as she can.

Jessica Mow, BS

Jessica is a third year PhD student in Clinical Psychology. She is interested in the cognitive and biological bases of social cognition. Her work in the AMP lab has centered on understanding the processes underlying impairments in social motivation in schizophrenia, as well as abnormalities in processing social reward and punishment in this population. The goal of her research is to identify targets for treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. She has a background in psycholinguistics from her undergraduate research at Tufts University and has experience in neuroimaging from her research at Massachusetts General Hospital. She enjoys outdoor activities such as climbing and skiing, and indoor activities of creative writing and playing piano.

Tairmae Kangarloo, BS

Tairmae is a second year PhD student in the Behavioral Neuroscience program. She has 7 years of clinical research experience in both academia and industry where her work is primarily focused on operationalizing digital research studies, including leading study design, protocol development, recruitment and retention strategies, and study execution. At Biogen and Pfizer she led the efforts to operationalize the start-up of the internal human biology labs and has been the primary operational point of contact for multisite external research collaborations focused on validation of digital tools for use in clinical trial settings. Her research interests lie in finding better tools to measure cognition and motivation in neurological populations such as PD and ALS. In her spare time she loves to be out and about exploring Boston and New England with friends and enjoys going hiking, biking, and beer gardens

Research Coordinator

Katie Gill, BA

Katie is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College where she was involved in several research labs. The main research she conducted focused on social motivation in mouse models of autism. After graduation, she worked for two years in pediatric magnetoencephalography Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is interested in ecological momentary assessment of social cognition and social motivation and hopes to gain a deeper understanding of these topics through her work at the AMP lab.

Research Assistants

Shari Gordon
Sophia Aburida
Liam Quidore
Riley Mcdonald

Lab Alumni

Alisa Gold

Anup Dupaguntla

Kathy Vong

Emma Pinsky

Sarah Shumacher

Samarth Doshi

Jourdan Parent
Current position: PhD student in Psychology, Brandeis University

Mariah Warren, BS
Master's in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Anne Uhlman, BA
Master's in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Kara Dillaway

Izzy Wolkoff

Allison Nash, BA

PsyD Student, Roosevelt University

Cindy Do, BS

Medical Student, Cooper Medical School

Rachel Friedman, MA

Master's Program in Mental Health Counseling & Behavioral Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Christine Marsico, MA

Current position: PhD Student in Counseling Psychology, Boston University

Sravya Vajram, BA

Current position: PsyD Student, Loyola University Maryland

Meghan Watson, MA