Patrick Staples

Patrick Staples has experience in the healthtech, fintech, and pharmaceutical industries. He received a PhD in biostatistics from Harvard.

Interests

Inferring behavior from smartphone data, digital phenotyping Efficient inference of infectious spread in networks Analysis of clustered data, generalized estimating equations Unsupervised learning, machine learning, targeted learning Scalable computational methods for big data Communicable disease, mental health, sleep detection

Education

• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Ph.D., Biostatistics
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Master of Arts - MA, Biostatistics
• Brigham Young University - B.S., Statistics, Mathematics

Experience

• Alto Neuroscience
  • VP of Data Science Jan 2022 -
  • Principal Data Scientist Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
• Migo - Senior Data Scientist Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
• Mindstrong - Data Scientist Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Post-Doctoral Fellow May 2016 - Feb 2018

Publications

• Staples P,* Torous J,* Barnett I, Carlson K, Sandoval S, Keshavan M, Onnela JP. “A Comparison of Passive and Active Estimates of Sleep In a Cohort with Schizophrenia.” npj Schizophrenia. 2017;3.
• Senders JT, Staples P, Karhade AV, Zaki MM, Gormley WB, Broekman ML, Smith TR, Arnaout O. “Machine Learning and Neurosurgical Outcome Prediction: A Systematic Review.” World Neurosurgery. 2017 Oct 3.
• Torous J, Staples P * , Slaters L, Adams J, Sandoval L, Onnela JP, Keshavan M. “Characterizing Smartphone Engagement for Schizophrenia: Results of a Naturalist Mobile Health Study.” Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses. 2017 Aug 4.
• Balzer L, Staples P, Onnela JP, DeGruttola V. “Using a network-based approach and targeted maximum likelihood estimation to evaluate the effect of adding pre-exposure prophylaxis to an ongoing test-and-treat trial.” Clinical Trials. 2017 Apr;14(2):201-10.
• Torous J*, Staples P*, Fenstermacher E, Dean J, Keshavan M. “Barriers, benefits, and beliefs of brain training smartphone apps: An internet survey of younger US consumers.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2016;10.
• Torous J, Staples P, Shanahan M, Lin C, Peck P, Keshavan M, Onnela JP. “Utilizing a personal smartphone custom app to assess the patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder.” JMIR Mental Health. 2015 Jan;2(1).
• Staples P, Ogburn EL, Onnela JP. “Incorporating contact network structure in cluster randomized trials.” Scientific Reports. 2015;5.
• Torous J, Staples P, Onnela JP. “Realizing the potential of mobile mental health: new methods for new data in psychiatry.” Current Psychiatry Reports. 2015 Aug 1;17(8):1-7.