Susan Murphy lab

Designing online learning and decision-making algorithms to optimize digital health interventions

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Congratulations to my colleague @subhabratasen90 on his well-deserved promotion to associate professor!!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Congratulations to my colleague Mark Sellke, who was on the OpenAI team that used AI to solve Erdős’s unit distance problem!! See https://t.co/1d64OXye5i

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

It was a pleasure working with my coauthors @susobhang70, @BhanuGullapalli, Daiqi Gao, @asimhgazi, @AnnaLiTrella, @ZipingXu0221, and @kewzha on this paper in The Philosophical Transactions A issue “Statistical workflow”! https://t.co/2JjTf6Auvh

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It was wonderful participating in the 2026 Conference on Intervention Optimization! Thanks to Linda Collins and Billie Nahum-Shani for their leadership!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

It was great speaking at the 2026 Intervention Optimization Conference with colleagues @devtomlinson and @TianchenQian!

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And I look forward to participating in tomorrow’s session on new experimental designs with fellow speaker @devtomlinson and chair @TianchenQian! For more info, see https://t.co/ePxM905OGv

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Postdoc @asimhgazi will also present “JITAI-Twins: A Digital Twin Framework for Optimizing and Continually Improving JITAIs,” work with D Gao, @susobhang70, Z Xu, @AnnaLiTrella, P Klasnja, and myself!

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Postdoc @asimhgazi will present “SigmaScheduling: Scheduling Decision Points for JITAIs When the Timing of Target Behaviors Is Uncertain,” on work with Bhanu Gullapalli, Daiqi Gao, Ben Marlin, Vivek Shetty, and myself!

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Tomorrow is a busy day for the Murphy lab at the 2026 Conference on Intervention Optimization!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Congratulations to @susobhang70 on his successful PhD thesis defense! Here is a nice shot of Susobhan and me with thesis committee members Yiling Chen, Sam Kou, and JP Onnela.

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Congratulations to my colleague @pragya_sur on winning a 2026 ASA Noether Early Career Scholar Award! See https://t.co/vRnPa9LoCB

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Postdoc Nicolas Leenaerts is presenting “Towards a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention for Group Therapy” in tomorrow’s @d3_center Think Tank!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Tomorrow Postdoc Nicolas Leenaerts is giving a talk on off-policy RL for optimizing digital interventions for weight loss at the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Postdoc Nicolas Leenaerts is giving the talk “Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning Optimizes Digital Interventions for Weight Loss in Overweight and Obesity” tomorrow at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at Brown University!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Postdoc Nicolas Leenaerts is giving the talk “Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning Optimizes Digital Interventions for Weight Loss in Overweight and Obesity” tomorrow at MGH’s Health Promotion and Resiliency Intervention Research Center!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Tomorrow Postdoc Nicolas Leenaerts is giving a talk on off-policy RL for optimizing digital interventions for weight loss at Justin Baker’s Laboratory for Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics at McLean Hospital!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Impromptu "lab" meeting at ENAR 2026 with former lab member Nick Seewald, future lab member Young Cho, and former lab member Tianchen Qian!!!

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It was a joy to speak in a session with colleagues
Rui Miao, Lu Wang and Wei Jin!
And thanks to Lingxuan Kong for chairing our session!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Congratulations to Susobhan Ghosh (@susobhang70), who has just accepted Amazon’s offer to join its Worldwide Promotions and Deals team as an applied scientist!

[Susan Murphy lab @SusanMurphylab1]

Congratulations to undergrad @BetinaKreiman, who has been accepted to the Kempner Institute’s 2026 KRANIUM program to do summer research with my lab! We look forward to working with you, Betina!