Carissa A. Low, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Psychology, and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, Core Faculty of the Center for Behavioral Health and Smart Technology, Member of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Adjunct Faculty in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Trained as a clinical health psychologist, her research leverages mobile technology for remote patient monitoring as well as delivery and personalization of behavioral interventions. As Director of the University of Pittsburgh Mobile Sensing and Health Institute (www.moshi.pitt.edu), she collaborates with other clinical researchers to help them integrate smartphone and wearable sensors into a variety of patient-centered studies. Her research has been funded by NCI, NIMH, NSF, the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance, the UPMC Aging Institute, and Sony Corporation, and she is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

During her spare time, she enjoys traveling to places with delicious food and walking around Pittsburgh listening to podcasts about technology or true crime. She lives in Squirrel Hill with her husband and daughter.