PhD Student @ UW CSE

Mike Merrill

About Me

I am a second year PhD student at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at The University of Washington, where I am advised by Tim Althoff. Previously, I was a data scientist and the second full-time employee at HealthRhythms.
I firmly believe in making time for the things and people that make me happy.

Research Interests

Data Science
Human Wellbeing
Behavior
Scientific Reproducability

Publications

CrossCheck: Integrating self-report, behavioral sensing, and smartphone use to identify digital indicators of psychotic relapse

Dror Ben-Zeev, Rachel Brian, Rui Wang, Weichen Wang, Andrew T. Campbell, Min S. H. Aung, Michael Merrill, Vincent W. S. Tseng, Tanzeem Choudhury, Marta Hauser, John M. Kane, and Emily A. Scherer

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2017 [PDF]

CrossCheck: toward passive sensing and detection of mental health changes in people with schizophrenia

Rui Wang, Min S. H. Aung, Saeed Abdullah, Rachel Brian, Andrew T. Campbell, Tanzeem Choudhury, Marta Hauser, John Kane, Michael Merrill, Emily A. Scherer, Vincent W. S. Tseng, and Dror Ben-Zeev

Ubicomp, 2016 [PDF]

Assessing mental health issues on college campuses: Preliminary findings from a pilot study

Vincent W. S. Tseng, Michael Merrill, Franziska Wittleder, Saeed Abdullah, Min Hane Aung, and Tanzeem Choudhury

Ubicomp, 2016 [PDF]

Posters

Sensing depression: Using smartphone sensors to predict changes in depression severity

Ellen Frank, Michael Merrill, Hane Aung, Claudio Soares, Sidney Kennedy, Mark Matthews, David Kupfer, Aleksandra Lalovic, and Tanzeem Choudhury

The 56th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017

Continuous behavioral data as a potential depression biomarker