Alex Dhima

Clinical Psych PhD student | affective neuroscience 🧠, digital phenotyping📱and AI to personalize psychiatry | former @NIMHgov, @HarvardMed & @UMassAmherst

[Alex Dhima @alexdhima]

@jacobhlentz @NSF @um_psychology @csmonk1 @eugiampetruzzi @purnimaqamar Amazing! Congrats!

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@joshnguyen_psy @GregStrauss8 Thanks Josh!

[Alex Dhima @alexdhima]

Excited to share I’ll be pursuing my PhD in Clinical Psychology with @GregStrauss8 at the University of Georgia to study emotion regulation and negative symptoms in schizophrenia and high-risk youth using 🧠and📲. Very honored to have also received UGA’s Presidential Fellowship!

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@aidamurati @GregStrauss8 Thanks so much Aida!

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@jacobhlentz @GregStrauss8 Thanks Jacob! Let’s hope it won’t come to that for your sake 😉

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@francesghart @GregStrauss8 Thanks a bunch Grace ☺️

[Alex Dhima @alexdhima]

Incredibly grateful to Danny Pine, @JohnTorousMD, Adam Grabell, Marta Korom, Katharina Kircanski, and David Moorman, who have been instrumental mentors in my journey. And a huge thank you to my wonderful colleagues, friends and loved ones for their endless support!

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@jacobhlentz @um_psychology @csmonk1 Congrats Jacob!!!

[Jacob Lentz @jacobhlentz]

I’m very excited to announce that this fall I will be coming ho〽️e to start my PhD in Developmental Psychology at @um_psychology with @csmonk1! Big thanks to Danny Pine and all my mentors and friends at NIH for supporting me in this process. Go Blue!

[Mark Shuquan Chen @shuquan_chen]

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! https://t.co/Dorriv0JTO

[Alex Dhima @alexdhima]

@francesghart @manasa_k_ @UMass_SEED_Lab Thank you! 😊

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New preprint‼️

Thrilled to end 2025 with new work extending my undergrad honors thesis showing that interpretable machine learning can classify young children’s engagement in dyadic, therapy-like tasks from live fNIRS data of the vlPFC and dlPFC 🧠

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https://t.co/8ESmNJAmtR

[Alex Dhima @alexdhima]

A huge thanks to @manasa_k_ along with Adam Grabell and @UMass_SEED_Lab for their mentorship and support on this project!

View full preprint 👉 https://t.co/8ESmNJAUjp

[Alex Dhima @alexdhima]

… this approach may hold promise for personalized, neuroscience-informed treatment routing and response monitoring in early childhood.