Pablo Paredes

Pablo E. Paredes is Clinical Assistant Professor at the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department, and by courtesy at the Epidemiology and Population Health Department at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research focuses on subtle interventions to reduce stress, such as guiding people to breathe slowly with subtle haptic cues from office or car furniture, and passive sensing of affective and physiological biomarkers derived from existing devices (such as computers, phones, etc.) Dr. Paredes leads the Pervasive Wellbeing Technology Lab, http://med.stanford.edu/pervasivewellbeingtech.html and recently was invited to give a TED Talk on his research, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60UStZX0kA. He has advised several PhD, masters and undergrad students. Prior to joining the School of Medicine, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science at Stanford University for two years. Dr. Paredes earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. During his PhD career, he held internships on behavior change and affective computing in Microsoft Research and Google. Before 2010 he was a senior strategic manager with Intel in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a lead product manager with Telefonica in Quito, Ecuador and an Entrepreneur in his natal Cuenca, Ecuador. In these roles, he has had the opportunity to closely evaluate designers, engineers, business people and researchers in telecommunications, product development, and ubiquitous computing.