Woebot

ChatBot as digital therapeutics

(founder) Alison Darcy, with a Ph.D. from University College, Dublin as well as a postdoctoral Fellowship from Stanford University, Alison began a collaboration with Andrew Ng, the globally renowned AI expert, founder of Coursera, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. She went on to run Andrew’s Health Innovation Lab in Computer Science at Stanford. Since then, Alison’s work has explored how to integrate human-centered design thinking and big datasets into research on technology-based psychotherapy, and helped her develop the engaging digital CBT program that eventually became affectionately known as Woebot.