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Taylor Swift Lyrics LDA
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Taylor Swift Lyrics LDA
Word Frequencies (Bigrams)
Climate Change as a result of The Bystander Effect
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Climate change- we all know the immensity of the problems it could cause, yet we are readily facilitating this catastrophe. There is no lack of evidence for climate change. According to NASA, Global temperatures have risen 1.1 degree Celsius since the 19th century. This is due to the increasing emission of carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and other environmentally harmful gases released due to various human activities.
Psychology as a congregation of subjects
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(Edit: I was 17 when I wrote this– so it seems a little reductionist and obvious in retrospect; but cut a kid some slack- this post can act as a baseline for growth) Basically, psychology is the congregation of philosophy and biology.
publications
Language adaptations of mental health interventions: User interaction comparisons with an AI-enabled conversational agent (Wysa) in English and Spanish
Published in Digital Health, 2024
This paper is about the effectiveness of cultural adaptation of Digital Mental Health Interventions (DMHI) for diverse populations. Find the paper here.
Recommended citation: Dinesh DN, Rao MN, Sinha C. Language adaptations of mental health interventions: User interaction comparisons with an AI-enabled conversational agent (Wysa) in English and Spanish. DIGITAL HEALTH. 2024;10. doi:10.1177/20552076241255616
Examining a Brief Web and Longitudinal App-Based Intervention [Wysa] for Mental Health Support in Singapore during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mixed-Methods Retrospective Observational Study
Published in Digital Health, 2024
This paper disects the impact of Wysa as a Mental Health support tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. It invovles a mixed-method approach that utilizes regression analyses and qualitative coding. Find the paper here.
Recommended citation: Sinha C, Dinesh DN, Heaukulani CK, Phang YS. Examining a Brief Web and Longitudinal App-Based Intervention [Wysa] for Mental Health Support in Singapore during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mixed-Methods Retrospective Observational Study. Frontiers in Digital Health. 2024;6. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2024.1443598
Exploring the Role of App Features in Providing Continuity of Care to Users on a Digital Mental Health Platform (Wysa): Retrospective Mixed Methods Observational Study
Published in Digital Health, 2026
This paper disects the impact of Wysa as a Mental Health support tool and how it helps continue therapy-based practices in between therapist-client sessions, and how it can encourage continued attendance to therapy sessions, and continued reflection even outside a therapy session. It invovles a mixed-method approach that utilizes inferential statistics, regression analyses and qualitative coding. Find the paper here.
Recommended citation: Sinha C, Thakkar R, Meheli S, Dinesh D. Exploring the Role of App Features in Providing Continuity of Care to Users on a Digital Mental Health Platform (Wysa): Retrospective Mixed Methods Observational Study. JMIR Form Res 2026;10:e73033. URL: https://formative.jmir.org/2026/1/e73033. DOI: 10.2196/73033
research
University of British Columbia
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Research Assistant with Dr. Carolyn Szostak
Honours Student (PSYO 490B) Find my full thesis here. Studied individual differences contributing to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy beliefs. Conducted literature reviews, compiled measures, and developed questionnaires using Qualtrics. Created consent and debriefing forms. Considered appropriate statistical tests for analysis, and conducted data analysis. Presented the results in two conferences, and completed an honors thesis manuscript. Here are the the presentations with findings:
Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference
Interdisciplinary Student Health Conference
Wysa
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Clinical Researcher, Research and Clinical Development, Wysa
Responsibilities: Working as a researcher with Wysa, an AI conversational agent for mental health support. Testing efficacy and usage using mixed-method approaches and RCTs. Conducting statistical testing, including sample size calculations, regression models, analyses of variance, logistic regressions, and simple descriptive and inferential statistics. Conducted R programming training sessions for the team.
Columbia University
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Research Assistant, Cognitive Media Lab, (Collaboration with University of California, San Diego)
Project: (MA Thesis) Misinformation Propagartion on Social Media Role: Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data through rigorous modeling techniques (Machine Learning, Social Networks analysis) to pinpoint key predictors driving the spread of misinformation on social media platforms regarding COVID-19. Learning Outcomes: Web Scraping, Python, Data Analysis, Social Networks Analysis
Columbia Business School
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Data Analyst Intern
Cleaning and analyzing large-scale data on academic uptake, churn, and yield; applied root cause analysis to identify improvement areas. Create dashboards and visual reports in Python and Power BI to drive data-informed strategic decisions. Project: Conducting PCA, LDA, and cluster analyses to categorize student career pathways based on courses taken.
Research Associate: Haupt Data Analytics
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Academic Research
- Conducted a persona-based analysis for COVID-19 misinformation sharing on social media, particularly on sites like Twitter. Identified key persona traits (psychological, social and political) which could influence greater misinformation engagement and sharing.
- Working on papers evaluating the use of LLMs for pharmaceutical use.
talks
teaching
Teaching Assistant
Teaching, University of British Columbia, 2020
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Worked as a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate psychology, statistics, and data analysis courses. Hosted review sessions. Graded assignments. Invigilated examinations. Helped students with subject matter during office hours: statistics and basic psychology concepts. Taught research methods and basic psychological and research concepts.
Tutor
Undergraduate tutor, University of British Columbia, 2021
Math and Science Tutor
January 2022 - April 2022
NLP Teaching Assistant
Teaching, Columbia University, 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Natural Language Processing
Worked as a Teaching Assistant for “Natural Language Processing” in Columbia’s Graduate School for the Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences Program. The course included hands-on learning of topics like: basics of Python, text tokenization, bag-of-words, NLTK, Stemming, lemmatization, Regex, web scraping, Document Similarity, text clustering, Word2Vec, TF-IDF, Speech tagging, Word Embeddings, Topical Extraction, LAtent Dirichlet Allocation, Lexicons, and Sentiment Analysis on text through Machine Learning.
ADS Teaching Assistant
Teaching, Columbia University, 2026
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Applied Data Science
Worked as a Teaching Assistant for “Applied Data Science” in Columbia’s Graduate School for the Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences Program. The course included teaching databricks, git, github, AWS and industry data sicence practices, along with data pipeline implementation leveraging MLFlow.