Bio

Pardis Miri, PhD, is a Research Scientist and former Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, where she develops technology aimed at improving mental well-being. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and has extensive training in affective science under Professor James J. Gross. Pardis leads a multidisciplinary team (http://wehab.stanford.edu
) conducting clinical and real-world studies to assess how wearable technologies can reduce stress and enhance glymphatic flow in early-stage Alzheimer’s patients.

During her postdoctoral work, Pardis served as the principal investigator of FAR, a multi-disciplinary project to design, build, and evaluate an end-to-end wearable system for children with emotion dysregulation, including those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. FAR aims to support more adaptive emotion-regulation strategies through a combination of systems design and behavioral research.

Pardis is advised by Professors Michael Snyder, Keith Marzullo, and James J. Gross, and collaborates with Professor Antonio Hardan of the Stanford School of Medicine on research involving children with autism spectrum disorder.

Honors & Awards

  • EAGER National Science Foundation Grant., Systems for Assisting in Emotion Regulation in the Wild. (2016-2020)
  • Facilitating Affect Regulation in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Stanford eWear Seed Grant (2020-2021)

Program Affiliations

Professional Education

  • Postdoc, Stanford University, Psychology and Computer Science Supervisors: James Gross and Keith Marzullo (2022)
  • PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz, Computer Science, HCI Supervisors: Katherine Isbister, James Gross, and Keith Marzullo (2019)
  • MS, University of California, San Diego, Computer Science, Systems and Networking Supervisors: Keith Marzullo and Amin Vahdat (2013)
  • BS, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Computer Engineering

Patents

  • Pardis Miri; Robert Flory; Keith Marzullo; James Gross. "United States Patent S19-525 62/972,610 (S31-06632.PRO) Personalizable, Inconspicuous Vibrotactile Breathing Pacer", Stanford University, Feb 10, 2020
  • Pardis Miri; Pankaj Garg; Benjamin Schultz;Sandeep Kishan Singhal; Madhan Sivakumar. "United States Patent 8806005 Cross-machine event log correlation", Microsoft Inc, Oct 8, 0179

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Projects

  • Design, Engineer, and Evaluate Technologies to Facilitate Affect Regulation, Stanford University (2016 - 2022)

    Our aim through this project is to develop and evaluate new and innovative vibrotactile technologies that assist individuals with affect regulation. A unique aspect of our contribution comes from the interdisciplinarity of our team. Included on our team are experts in emotion regulation, haptics, electrical engineering, HCI, and distributed systems, as well as experts in the clinical application of biofeedback. We believe that such an interdisciplinary approach is necessary for making progress in the development of technology that assists in affect regulation. To learn more about the specific projects please visit our page: wehab.stanford.edu

    Location

    Stanford

    Collaborators

    • Keith Marzullo, Dean and Professor, University of Maryland
    • James Gross, Professor, Stanford University
    • Antonio Hardan, Professor, Stanford University
    • Lawrence Fung, Associate Professor, Stanford University
    • John Hegarty, School of Medicine

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Lab Affiliations

Professional Interests

I am a life time learner with a broad experience and interests.
Haptics technology;
Emotion Regulation;
Brain Entrainment;
Product Design and Development;
Human Centered Design;
Human AI Interaction product design;

All Publications

  • Challenges in Evaluating Technological Interventions for Affect Regulation IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING Miri, P., Margarit, H., Uusberg, A., Marzullo, K., Ball, T. M., Yamins, D., Flory, R., Gross, J. J. 2023; 14 (3): 2430-2442

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3175687

    View details for Web of Science ID 001075041900054

  • FAR: End-to-End Vibrotactile Distributed System Designed to Facilitate Affect Regulation in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Slow Breathing Miri, P., Arora, M., Malhotra, A., Flory, R., Hu, S., Lowber, A., Goyal, I., Nguyen, J., Hegarty, J., Kohn, M., Schneider, D., Culbertson, H., Yamins, D. L. K., Fung, L., Hardan, A., Gross, J. J., Marzullo, K., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3491102.3517619

    View details for Web of Science ID 000922929503024

  • Evaluating a Personalizable, Inconspicuous Vibrotactile(PIV) Breathing Pacer for In-the-Moment Affect Regulation CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Miri, P., Jusuf, E., Uusberg, A., Margarit, H., Flory, R., Isbister, K., Marzullo, K., Gross, J. J. 2020: 13

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3313831.3376757

  • PIV: Placement, Pattern, and Personalization of an Inconspicuous Vibrotactile Breathing Pacer ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION Miri, P., Flory, R., Uusberg, A., Culbertson, H., Harvey, R. H., Kelman, A., Peper, D., Gross, J. J., Isbister, K., Marzullo, K. 2020; 27 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3365107

    View details for Web of Science ID 000535715400005

  • Using the Neuroscience of Fear Extinction for Anxiety Reduction: Study Design, Aims, and Preliminary Data Ball, T., Miri, P., Williams, L. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. 2019: 267–68

    View details for Web of Science ID 000509665600500

  • PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric Mysore, R., Pamboris, A., Farrington, N., Huang, N., Miri, P., Radhakrishnan, S., Subramanya, V., Vandat, A., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009: 39–50

    View details for Web of Science ID 000291564100005

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