Our Team

To learn more about our team, please click their names or pictures to be directed to their faculty pages and directory information.

Mother of ChatterBaby™

Dr. Ariana Anderson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Semel Institute of Neuroscience & Behavior at UCLA

Ph.D. in Statistics: UCLA

Expert in signal processing and machine learning, and mother of four

Dr. Juanita Lewis, M.D.

Fellow in Neonatology & Developmental Biology

MEDICAL SCHOOL - Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons

PEDIATRICS RESIDENCY - New York University

Bianca Hoang-Dang, B.S.

ChatterBaby™ Research Coordinator

ChatterBaby™ Director of Web & Media

Clinical Neuromodulation Research Lead – UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience & Behavior

UCLA 2020, Biology & Evolutionary Medicine B.S.

Dr. Joanna Parga-Belinkie, M.D.

Attending Neonatologist – Division of Neonatology

MEDICAL SCHOOL - Mount Sinai School of Medicine

PEDIATRICS RESIDENCY - Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California

Dr. Sharon Lewin, M.D.

Fellow in Neonatology & Developmental Biology

MEDICAL SCHOOL - Stony Brook University School of Medicine

PEDIATRICS RESIDENCY - New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell

Dr. Diana Montoya-Williams, M.D.

Attending Neonatologist – Division of Neonatology

MEDICAL SCHOOL - Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

PEDIATRICS RESIDENCY - University of Florida

DEVELOPMENT & FUNDING

App Development

UCLA's 2016 Code for the Mission ChatterBaby™ Team

Dr. Ariana Anderson – Principal Investigator

Lauren Dunlap – Mobile Developer

Usha Nookala – Signal Processing

in collaboration with the Computing Technologies Research Lab (CTRL)

Funding

UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI UL1TR000124)

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA

Acknowledgment

We gratefully acknowledge the additional contributions of:

Abeer Alwan

Delbert Whetter

Sanaz Whetter

Brianna Shaul

Bianca Hoang Dang

Susan Bookheimer

Mirella Dapretto

Don Vaughn

Carol Han

Malina Revett

Mahtash Esfandiari

Sherry Eyer

Yvette Quezada

Anne Jackson

UCLA Department of Statistics

UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering

OxVoc Team: Christine Parsons and Michelle Craske

Yining Zhao

ChatterTranslation Team

Bianca Hoang Dang – Translation Team Lead, Vietnamese Translator, Spanish Co-Translator

Yvette Quezada – Spanish Co-Translator

Solène Poulhazan - French Translator

Sheila Shengchen Zhang - Chinese Translator

Pashmeen Kaur - Hindi Translator

Abrahim Razzak - Japanese Translator

Su Bin Yoon – Korean Translator

GET INVOLVED

Get Involved

CONTACT US

We are constantly working to improve and expand our research and the ChatterBaby™ app.

Get involved with our research- download the ChatterBaby app today!

The ChatterBaby™ algorithm is collecting baby cries and developmental history to assess whether acoustic abnormalities heard in an infant's cry pattern may be a risk factor for a future developmental disorder such as autism spectrum disorder.

If you are a parent, please contribute to our research by filling out a survey!

Baby audio files will be stored in UCLA data servers for future research regarding baby voice correlation with developmental infant history.* Using ChatterBaby™ will allow us to build our library of audio files to help us further our research.

For more information, please refer to the Consent Form that you acknowledged and accepted when launching the app.

PARENT SURVEY

* We remove as much personal information as possible from audio files to better focus on the audio of the baby and our algorithms analyze the cries, not humans! See our FAQ page for more information.

DONATE DATA CONSENT FORM

PRESS

Press

Defining and distinguishing infant behavioral states using acoustic cry analysis: is colic painful?

Nature Pediatric Research, October 2019

Code for the Mission UCLA

ChatterBaby™ app was born and placed 1st at the 2016 Code for the Mission Challenge. UCLA's Code for the Mission App Competition's goal is to encourage the development of mobile apps that further our mission of education, research, and service.