Mikaela Fudolig
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
I'm currently a Research Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont. I work with the Computational Story Lab and the Vermont Complex Systems Institute with my postdoc supervisors Prof. Chris Danforth and Prof. Peter Dodds.
My work spans a wide variety of topics – mobile communication, migration, tweets, books, music, and wellness – but I see them connected by a single theme: understanding human behavior through the use of data. While my academic background is in physics, my research is in computational social science, and I'm excited to continue working in this emerging field.
Selected Publications
Meeting people where they are: Crowdsourcing goal-specific personalized wellness practices
PLOS Digital Health, Nov. 19, 2024
Nightly heart rate variability as a biomarker of mental health changes in college students
2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), Oct. 15, 2024
The two fundamental shapes of sleep heart rate dynamics and their connection to mental health in college students
Digital Biomarkers, July 1, 2024
Events and behaviors associated with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in first-year college students
PsyArXiv Preprint, June 20, 2024
Predicting stress in first-year college students using sleep data from wearable devices
PLOS Digital Health, April 11, 2024
A large clinical trial to improve well-being during the transition to college using wearables: The lived experiences measured using rings study
Contemporary Clinical Trials, Sept. 21, 2023
A blind spot for large language models: Supradiegetic linguistic information
Preprint, June 11, 2023
Park visitation and walkshed demographics in the United States
Preprint, May 20, 2023
An assessment of measuring local levels of homelessness through proxy social media signals
Preprint, May 15, 2023
A decomposition of book structure through ousiometric fluctuations in cumulative word-time
Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, April 29, 2023