Biography

Christopher Urban will be completing his PhD in quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this August. Christopher completed a BS in Psychology with concentrations in mathematics and physics from Stony Brook University. Christopher’s area of research is broadly focused on building probabilistic models to understand and predict complex behavioral processes. He is developing and disseminate probabilistic machine learning methods that can be used to extract insights from various types of behavioral data including smartphone and wearable sensor data, large-scale surveys, and social media usage data. Chris is an avid hiker in his spare time.