Johannes Eichstaedt

Johannes Eichstaedt is a computational social scientist in psychology, an Assistant Professor in Psychology, and the Shriram Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. He directs the Computational Psychology and Well-Being Lab at Stanford. In 2011, he co-founded the World Well-Being Project at the University of Pennsylvania, which is now a big data psychology consortium. A key emphasis of his work is to use the new generation of LLMs, data science, and AI for good, to benefit the social good, well-being, and health. One of the main directions of his lab is to determine the safe and responsible conditions under which LLMs can deliver psychotherapy and well-being interventions. Over the last decade, he has pioneered methods of psychological text analysis, specifically, using social media (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, …) to understand the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that drive physical illness (like heart disease), depression, or support psychological well-being.