People

People
AMP Lab

Director

Daniel Fulford, PhD

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Fulford conducts lab-based and "real-world", ambulatory studies to better understand dysregulated motivation and emotion in psychopathology. He uses mobile technology as a tool for experience sampling and behavioral sensing (i.e., continuous, unobtrusive measurement from smartphone sensors), supporting ecological assessment and just-in-time intervention research. Some of this work involves prediction of momentary states 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 the Mental Health Counseling/Behavioral Medicine and Neuroscience programs at BU. He is PI on several grant-funded projects focused on human motivation and social dynamics using smartphone-based assessment and intervention. He has served as grant reviewer at the NIH and NSF, and is on the editorial board for the American Psychological Association's flagship publication, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 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

I am a third-year PhD student in the Rehabilitation Sciences program at Sargent College. I earned my bachelor’s degree in psychology from Purdue University at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, IN. My primary research interests center on better understanding motivational impairment in people with schizophrenia, as motivational deficits can contribute to a myriad of negative outcomes. Currently, motivation within schizophrenia is assessed and measured via self-report, clinician-rated interviews, and lab-based tasks; as these can have many limitations, my goal is to use more sensitive, "objective" markers of motivational impairment, including measures of pain and pain sensitivity. Aside from that, I am also interested in language use in schizophrenia and how it can aid in our understanding of psychosocial functioning.

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 in her second year of the Occupational Therapy program where she is pursuing a clinical doctorate. Her research interests involve exploring the role of implicit theories in psychopathology and applying it to individuals with severe mental illness. Specifically, she would like to examine the influence of implicit theories on social functioning, motivation and goal pursuit for individuals with schizophrenia. After completing the Occupational Therapy program, she plans to transition into the Rehabilitation Sciences PhD program where she will further examine these questions in the AMP lab.

Jessica Mow, BS

Jessica is a first-year Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Psychology. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in Cognitive and Brain Sciences. She has worked in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics research in the past, but switched to clinical research and most recently worked in the Emotion and Social Neuroscience Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her current research interests center on the cognitive and biological bases of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, particularly social anhedonia.

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

Alisa Gold
Anup Dupaguntla
Kathy Vong
Sarah Shumacher
Sophia Aburida
Emma Pinsky

Lab Alumni

Samarth Doshi

Jourdan Parent
PhD in Psychology, Brandeis University - Starting Fall 2019

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

Cindy Do, BS

Medical Student, Cooper Medical School

Rachel Friedman, BS

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

Christine Marsico, MA

PhD Student in Counseling Psychology, Boston University

Sravya Vajram, BA

PsyD Student, Loyola University Maryland

Meghan Watson, BA