Bio

Agata Rozga is a developmental psychologist and senior research scientist for the School of Interactive Computing, where she directs the Georgia Tech Child Study Lab in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interest and research lies at the interdisciplinary boundary between developmental psychology and computing, and focuses on analyzing autism and related developmental conditions. She asks questions regarding how the behavior of individuals with autism emerges and transforms over time. To find answers, she applies novel sensing capabilities and computationally driven measurement and modeling. This work is leading to novel ways of capturing and quantifying complex human behaviors, as well as developing new understandings of these behaviors -- both among typically developing individuals and those with autism. The ultimate goal is to make these new measurements and modeling techniques work outside the lab in real-world environments like the home, school, and clinic where there is a need for more objective, reliable means of tracking the emergence of autism and its developmental course. Rozga also has a broad interest in exploring how technology can impact research and clinical care outcomes of autism. Recent projects in this space include evaluating a novel telehealth tool to support remote diagnosis of autism using videos recorded by parents in the home, and developing and evaluating motion-based games to support engagement and collaboration among students with autism. Rozga received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s and doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship through the Center for Behavior Neuroscience at Georgia State University before joining Georgia Tech in 2010. Rozga is affiliated with the GVU Center, the Institute for People and Technology, and the Center for Behavior Imaging.