Past Member

Natasha Jaques

Former Research Assistant

Contact Information:

jaquesn@mit.edu

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Social and Affective Machine Learning

Jaques, Natasha. Social and Affective Machine Learning. 2019. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD dissertation.

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Automatic Triage and Analysis of Online Suicide Risk with Document Embeddings and Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Jones, N., Jaques, N., Pataranutaporn, P., Ghandeharioun, A., & Picard, R. (2019, September). Analysis of Online Suicide Risk with Document Embeddings and Latent Dirichlet Allocation. In 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

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Intrinsic Social Motivation via Causal Influence in Multi-Agent RL

Jaques, N., Lazaridou, A., Hughes, E., Gulcehre, C., Ortega, P. A., Strouse, D. J., Leibo, J. Z., and de Freitas, N. "Intrinsic Social Motivation via Causal Influence in Multi-Agent RL," International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR), New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2019 (submitted).

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Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers

Johnson, K.T., Taylor, S., Fedor, S., Jaques, N., Chen, W., Picard, R.W. "Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers." Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018.

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Mood, Stress and Sleep Sensing with Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phone

Sano,A., Taylor,S., Jaques,N., Chen,W., Lopez-Martinez,D., Nosakhare,E., Rudovic,O., Umematsu,T., and Picard,R., "Mood, Stress and Sleep Sensing with Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phone," The 40th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 2018.

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Learning via social awareness: improving sketch representations with facial feedback

Jaques, N., Engel, J., Ha, D., Bertsch, F., Picard, R., and Eck, D. "Learning via social awareness: improving sketch representations with facial feedback." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, April 2018.

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Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health

Taylor, S.*, Jaques, N.*, Nosakhare, E., Sano, A. and Picard, R., "Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2784832 *Both authors contributed equally. WINNER: BEST OF COLLECTION

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Multimodal Autoencoder: A Deep Learning Approach to Filling In Missing Sensor Data and Enabling Better Mood Prediction

Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Sano, A., and Picard, R. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), San Antonio, Texas, October 2017

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Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Health, and Stress Level using Personalized Multitask Learning and Domain Adaptation

Jaques, N., Rudovic, O., Taylor, S., Sano, A., and Picard, R. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 48, 17-33. August 2017.

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Sequence Tutor: Conservative Fine-Tuning of Sequence Generation Models with KL-Control

Jaques, N., Gu, S., Bahdanau, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Turner, R., and Eck, D. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sydney, Australia, August 2017.

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Sequence Tutor: Conservative Fine-Tuning of Sequence Generation Models with KL-control

Jaques, N., Gu, S., Bahdanau, D., Hernandez-Lobato, J., Turner, R., and Eck, D. "Sequence Tutor: Conservative Fine-Tuning of Sequence Generation Models with KL-Control," International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sydney, Australia, August 2017

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Importance of Sleep Data in Predicting Next-Day Stress, Happiness, and Health in College Students

Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Nosakhare, E., Sano, A., Klerman, E., and Picard, R. "Importance of Sleep Data in Predicting Next-Day Stress, Happiness, and Health in College Students," Sleep2017, June 2017.

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Tuning Recurrent Neural Networks with Reinforcement Learning

Jaquesn, N., Gu, S., Turner, R., and Eck, D. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) workshop, Toulon, France, April 2017

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Multi-task Learning for Predicting Health, Stress, and Happiness

Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Nosakhare, E., Sano, A., Picard, R. In Proc. NIPS Workshop on ML in Health, Barcelona, Spain, December 2016. **BEST PAPER AWARD**

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Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language

Jaques, N., McDuff, D., Kim, Y. K., and Picard, R. W. "Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.

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Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations

Jaques, N., Kim, Y. L., and Picard, R. W. "Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.

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BITxBIT: Encouraging Behavior Change with N=2 Experiments

Natasha Jaques, Travis Rich, Karthik Dinakar, Niaja Farve, Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen, Pattie Maes, Rosalind W. Picard, Kevin Slavin

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Machine Learning of Sleep and Wake Behaviors to Classify Self-Reported Evening Mood

Taylor S, Jaques N, Sano A, Azaria A, Ghandeharioun A, Picard R. "Machine Learning of Sleep and Wake Behaviors to Classify Self-Reported Evening Mood," Sleep2016, June 2016

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Active Learning for Electrodermal Activity Classification

Xia, V., Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Fedor, S., and Picard, R. "Active Learning for Electrodermal Activity Classification" In Proc. IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2015.

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Multi-task Multi-Kernel Learning for Estimating Individual Wellbeing

Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Sano, A., and Picard, R.W. "Multi-task, Multi-Kernel Learning for Estimating Individual Wellbeing" In Proc. NIPS Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning, Montreal, Quebec, December 2015.

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Predicting students' happiness from physiology phone mobility and behavioral data

Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Azaria, A., Ghandeharioun, A., Sano, A., and Picard, R. "Predicting students' happiness from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data" In Proc. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Xi'an, China, September 2015.

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SmileTracker: Automatically and unobtrusively recording smiles and their context

Natasha Jaques, Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen, and Rosalind W. Picard. 2015. SmileTracker: Automatically and Unobtrusively Recording Smiles and their Context. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1953–1958. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732708

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Automatic Identification of Artifacts in Electrodermal Activity Data

Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Chen, W., Fedor, S., Sano, A., and Picard, R. "Automatic Identification of Artifacts in Electrodermal Activity Data" In Proc. International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan, Italy, August 2015.

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Prediction of Happy-Sad Mood from Daily Behaviors and Previous Sleep History

Sano, A., Yu A.Z., McHill, A.W., Phillips, A.J., Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Czeisler, C,A., Klerman, E.B., Picard. R.W. "Prediction of Happy-Sad Mood from Daily Behaviors and Previous Sleep History" In Proc. International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan, Italy, August 2015

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Wavelet-Based Motion Artifact Removal for Electrodermal Activity

Chen, W., Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Sano, A., Fedor, S., and Picard, R. "Wavelet-Based Motion Artifact Removal for Electrodermal Activity" In Proc. International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan, Italy, August 2015.

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Automatic identification of artifacts in electrodermal activity data

Taylor S, Jaques N, Chen W, Fedor S, Sano A, Picard R. Automatic identification of artifacts in electrodermal activity data. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015;2015:1934-7. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318762. PMID: 26736662; PMCID: PMC5413200.

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Recognizing Academic Performance Sleep Quality Stress Level and Mental Health using Personality Traits Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phones

Sano, A., Phillips, A.J., Yu A.Z., McHill, A.W., Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Czeisler, C,A., Klerman, E.B., Picard. R.W., "Recognizing Academic Performance, Sleep Quality, Stress Level, and Mental Health using Personality Traits, Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phones," In the proceedings of Body Sensor Networks, Cambridge, USA, June 2015.