Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department Seminar with Yongyi Guo (University of Wisconsin-Madison

Digital health interventions offer the opportunity to deliver personalized support at scale, but designing and evaluating such interventions raises new statistical and methodological challenges. Dr. Guo will describe her work on MiWaves, a mobile health study aimed at reducing cannabis use among emerging adults, where intervention messages were delivered via a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI), using a reinforcement learning (RL) framework.