Dr. Ariana Anderson is an Assistant Research Statistician in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She received her B.S. in Mathematics and her Ph.D. in Statistics followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Her research is focused on creating measurements of neuropsychiatric disorders to improve both diagnosis and treatment, spanning data from behavioral assessments, speech, and neuroimaging.
She is a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, as well as a Career Award from the NIA. Her baby monitor for Deaf parents, ChatterBaby, was awarded first prize in MHealth Apps in UCLA’s 2016 Code for the Mission competition. She was a featured speaker at IMFAR on optimizing social networks for children with autism spectrum disorder, and the Institute of Medicine on how to address the placebo response in drug studies, and has worked with Dr. Karl Friston at University College, London on approaches to relaxing Bayesian priors in Dynamic Causal Models. She has served as a reviewer for both the NIH and the NSF, and has published on a broad range of neuropsychiatric disorders.