Ilan Dinstein is Professor of Psychology at Ben Gurion University in Israel. He received his PhD from the Center for Neural Science at New York University in 2010 and then completed post-doctoral training in the Neurobiology Department at the Weizmann Institute and the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Prof. Dinstein is the Founding Director of the Azrieli National Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopment Research (ANCAN), which builds national partnerships across academic, healthcare, industry, and community stakeholders. His current research focuses on developing AI-enabled digital phenotyping techniques for studying social, cognitive, language, and motor development as well as mental health in autistic children.
In this talk he will present several examples of this research including quantification of motor stereotypies and facial expressions in video recordings of autistic children, as well as studying sleep disturbances in autistic adolescents at home with wearable and nearable devices. These studies are part of a larger vision to develop a comprehensive AI-enabled digital phenotyping toolbox for objective, reliable, direct, and sensitive measurement of clinically relevant behaviors in autism.
