Dr. Phillip Wolff

Dr. Wolff is a Professor of Psychology at Emory University, where he contributes to the Cognitive and Computational Science and Clinical Science concentrations. He also serves as core faculty in the Program in Linguistics and is associated with the Department of Computer Science. His work spans five areas where language, computation, and clinical science intersect.

1. 1.Language Semantics – Structure and meaning in natural language.
2. 2.Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Machine learning and NLP applied to human language.
3. 3.Digital Phenotyping of Mental Illness – Digital phenotyping of mental illness, with a focus on psychosis.
4. 4.Digital Phenotyping of Neurodegenerative Diseases – Digital phenotyping of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and PPA.
5. 5.Causal Reasoning and Future Thinking – Causal reasoning and how people think about future events.

Dr. Wolff's research centers on mining natural language data for biomarkers of psychosis, neurodegenerative disease, and core cognitive processes. His work sits at the intersection of Psychology, Computer Science, and Linguistics. He has presented at more than ten international conferences over the past six years.

In addition to his role as the Director of the Program in Cognition and Development, Dr. Wolff has served as the Interim Chair of Linguistics at Emory University and as faculty at the 2007 Summer Institute of Linguistics. He teaches Statistics in the Psychology Department, with a focus on computational statistics and how machine learning applies to biomedical and psychological questions.

Dr. Wolff has also been an Associate Editor for the journal Cognitive Science and a member of four editorial boards. As a site Principal Investigator for the Accelerated Medicines Partnership in Schizophrenia (AMP SCZ), he oversees an international project with over 42 participating sites worldwide, leading efforts in the collection and NLP analysis of language biomarkers.