About
The 2026 UW-Madison Neuroscience & Public Policy Seminar presents Dr. Alex Leow. This is an in-person event with a virtual option held on Zoom.
Speaker
Alex Leow, MD, PhD, is a Professor in Psychiatry, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an attending physician at the University of Illinois Hospital.
Co-founder of the Computational Neuroimaging and Connected Technology lab, Dr. Leow leads the BiAffect study, the first crowd-sourced iPhone study that turns smartphones into “brain fitness trackers” using naturalistic smartphone keyboard typing metadata. Dr. Leow and her research have been extensively featured in the news, including the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Rolling Stone, NBC News, IEEE EMBS society, NPR’s All Things Considered, FreeThink, and TEDxChicago.
Contact
Suhjung Janet Lee, slee2285@wisc.edu