AI + Psychology
Psychology and AI Research Projects for High School Students
Artificial intelligence is transforming how we develop personalized mental health interventions, predict and analyze mental health trends, and understand psychology. In the AI Scholars program, high school students can work on a project at the intersection of AI + psychology.
Sample AI + Psychology Projects from Past AI Scholars Students
Mental Health Chatbots
Share your feelings with an AI chatbot which generates novel and flexible responses based on your current emotional state to guide you to helpful resources.
Developed by:
Mark Torres
Yale University
Facial Emotion Detection
Create computer vision models to detect emotions on people’s faces, helping provide feedback in online education.
Developed by:
Rhea Jain
Carnegie Mellon
Meet Our AI + Sustainability Curriculum Advisors
Mark Torres
Bachelor’s in Statistics and Data Science | Yale University
Studied statistics and data science at Yale. Researched NLP and how information (and misinformation) is spread online. He is particularly interested in how NLP can be used to learn more about how people communicate and spread information.
Rhea Jain
Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering | Carnegie Mellon
Studied electrical and computer engineering, as well as machine learning at Carnegie Mellon. Works as a machine learning researcher and applied scientist at Microsoft.
AI Scholars Program Overview
AI Scholars Live Online is a 10 session (25-hour) artificial intelligence bootcamp that exposes high school students to fundamental AI concepts and guides them to build a socially impactful project. Taught by our team of graduate students from Stanford, MIT, and more, students receive a personalized learning experience in small groups with a student-teacher ratio of 5:1.
