Dr. Jennifer Khoury is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies in Neuroscience. She leads the Developmental Psychobiology Research Centre (DPRC) and seeks to understand how early life experiences influence biological, psychological, and social development. Dr. Khoury has expertise in child and parent interaction, attachment, the still-face paradigm and child socio-emotional development, as well as knowledge and methodological expertise related to behavioural observation, emotional and behavioural coding, and complex statistical analyses. As a developmental psychologist, she has a successful publication record focused on the effects of early life stress, including disruptions in parent-child relationships, on child emotional, behavioural, and physiological development. www.dpresearchcentre.com

Dr. Sherry Stewart is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology & Neuroscience at Dalhousie University and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health. Her research focuses on psychological factors underlying addictive behaviors, and mechanisms and interventions for co-occurring emotional and addictive disorders.

Dr. Rita Orji is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Persuasive Computing Lab at Dalhousie University. Her research is the area of Human-Computer Interaction, with a major focus on Persuasive Technology and Behaviour Change. She is particularly interested in investigating how to design interactive systems (applications) to support users to achieve various health and wellness objectives including to improve a wide range health and wellness behaviors such as sexual and other health risk behaviors, healthy eating, physical activity, mental health, and smoking cessations.

Evangelos Milios is a University Research Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University and Scientific Director of Deepsense. His current research is on interactive machine learning methods for information retrieval and text classification and clustering of scientific, biomedical and social media documents. His aim is to support domain experts in making sense of large document collections.