Publications*

2025

  • Journal articles
    • Aafjes van Doorn, K., Cicconet, M., Cohn, J. F., & Aafjes, M. (2025). Predicting working alliance in psychotherapy: A multi-modal machine learning approach Psychotherapy Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2024.2428702
    • Aafjes van Doorn, K., Cicconet, M., Bate, J., Cohn, J. F., & Aafjes, M. (2025). Development of an AI-based measure of therapists’ skills: A multi-modal proof of concept. Psychotherapy.
    • Auerbach, R. P., Bloom, P. A., Pagliaccio, D., Ranqing Lan, M., Galfalvy, H., Bitran, A., Durham, K., Crowley, R., Joyce W, K., Blanchard, A., Chernick, L. S., Dayan, P. S., Greenblatt, J., Kahn, L. E., Porta, G., Tse, T. C., Cohn, J. F., Morency, L.-P., Brent, D. A., & Allen, N. B. (2025). Using smartphone-derived GPS data to improve the short-term prediction of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in high-risk adolescents. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.56429
    • Provenza, N., Rajesh, S., Reyes, G., katlowitz, K., Pugalenthi, L., Pugalenthi, L., Bechtold, R., Diab, N., Reddy, S., Allam, A., Gandhi, A., Kabotyanski, K., Mansourian, K., Bentley, J., Altman, J., Hinduja, S., Giridharan, N., Banks, G., Shofty, B.,…Sheth, S. (2025 (in press)). High beta power in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex indexes human approach behavior: A case study. Journal of Neuroscience. https://10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1321-24.2025
  • Published Conference Proceedings and Reports
    • Aafjes, M., Cicconet, M., van Doorn, K. A., Cohn, J. F., Gibbons, R. D., Ryan, N. D., Tsui, F. R., George-Milford, B., & Brent, D. A. (2025, April 23-25). Audiovisual behavioral and physiological markers of suicidal risk: An opportunity for passive ambient screening. Suicide Research Symposium (SRS), Virtual.
    • Sariyanidi, E., Yankowitz, L., Schultz, R. T., Herrington, J. D., Tunc, B., & Cohn, J. (2025). Beyond FACS: Data-driven facial expression dictionaries, with application to predicting autism. IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 19, 1-8.

2024

2023

2022

  • Published Abstracts
    • Ahn, Y.A., Onal Itrugrul, I., Chow, S.M., Cohn, J.F., & Messinger, D.S. (2022), Automated measurement of infant and mother duchenne facial expressions in the Face-to-Face/Still-Face. In New Direction in Face-to-Face Communication, International Conference on Infant Studies. Ottawa.
    • Cicconet, M., Jones, J., Barone, B., Kellogg, L., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Cohn, J.F., & Aafjes, M. (February 2022). Depression ClinRO inference using momentary multimodal behavioral and physiological digital biomarkers from decentralized data collection. International Society Conference for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology, Washington, DC.  Distinguished Paper Awardee.
    • Cohn, J.F. (March 2022). Behavioral outputs of brain activity. NIH Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization Workshop. 
    • Darzi, A., Hinduja, S., Provenza, N. R., Jeni, L. A., Borton, D. A., Gadot, R., Sheth, S. A., Goodman, W. K., & Cohn, J. F. (June 2022). Behavioral biomarkers of OCD symptom severity and DBS energy. 8th Annual BRAIN Investigator’s Meeting, Washington, DC.
    • Jones, J., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Cohn, J. F., & Aafjes, M. (October 2022). Real-time AI-rater monitoring to improve CLINROs (clinician reported outcomes). International Conference on CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology, Boston.

2021

  • Journal articles
    • Allawala, A. B., Bijanki, K. R., Goodman, W., Cohn, J. F., Viswanathan, A., Yoshor, D., Borton, D. A., Pouratian, N., & Sheth, S. A. (2021). A novel framework for network-targeted neuropsychiatric deep brain stimulation. Neurosurgery.
    • Niinuma, K., Jeni, L. A., Ertugrul, I. O., & Cohn, J. F. (2021). Systematic evaluation of design choices for deep facial action coding across pose. Frontiers in Computer Science
    • Provenza, N. R., Sheth, S. A., Rijn, E. M. D.-v., Mathura, R. K., Ding, Y., Vogt, G. S., Avendano-Ortega, M., Ramakrishnan, N., Peled, N., Gelin, L. F. F., Xing, D., Jeni, L. A., Ertugrul, I. O., Barrios-Anderson, A., Matteson, E., Wiese, A. D., Xu, J., Viswanathan, A., Bijanki, K., Storch, E. A., Cohn, J. F., Goodman, W. K., & Borton, D. A. (2021). Long-term ecological assessment of intracranial electrophysiology synchronized to behavioral markers in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Nature Medicine.
  • Published Conference Proceedings and Reports
  • Published Abstracts
    • Ahn, Y. A., Ertugrul, I. O., Chow, S.-M., Cohn, J. F., & Messinger, D. S. (2021). Is mother-infant face-to-face responsivity affective? Society for Affective Science, Virtual.
    • Bylsma, L.M., Swartz, H.A., Fournier, J.C., Morency, L., Girard, J.M., Cohn, J.F. (2021). Feasibility and Acceptability of IPT-B and Brief CBT for Depression Delivered In-Person and via Telehealth. In H.A. Swartz (chair), Evidence-Based Approaches to Teletherapy: What Do We Know About Remote Delivery of IPT and Related Therapies? Symposium to be presented virtually at the Biennial Conference of the International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ISIPT).
    • Elliott, B. T., Girard, J. M., Bylsma, L. M., Cohn, J. F., Fournier, J. C., Morency, L.-P., & Swartz, H. A. (2021). Observing changes in pathological personality traits and interpersonal problems over the course of brief psychotherapy for depression. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research.           
    • Johnson, E. N., Elliott, B. T., Girard, J. M., Bylsma, L. M., Cohn, J. F., Fournier, J. C., Morency, L.-P., & Swartz, H. A. (2021). Predicting working alliance during depression psychotherapy treatment from personality and interpersonal style. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research.
    • Sheth, S. A., Bijanki, K. R., Metzger, B., Allawala, A., Pirtle, V., Adkinson, J. A., Myers, J., Mathura, R. K., Oswalt, D., Tsolaki, E., Xiao, J., Noecker, A., Cohn, J. F., McIntyre, C. C., Mathew, S. J., Borton, D., Goodman, W., & Pouratian, N. (2021). Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression informed by intracranial sEEG UH3 NS103549 Brain Initiative, Virtual.
    • Yeojin Ahn, Martin, K., Prince, E., Chow, S.-M., Cohn, J., Wang, J., . . . Messinger, D. (2021). Not-so-still interaction: Parent-infant interaction during the still-face and later infant attachment. Society for Research in Child Development.

2020

  • Journal articles
  • Published Conference Proceedings and Reports
    • Ding, Y., Ertugrul, I. O., Jeni, L., Provenza, N. R., Cohn, J. F., Borton, D., & Goodman, W. (2020). Automated Detection of Optimal DBS Device Settings. Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

    • Hurst, N., Baynes, R., Mitroff, D., Clabaugh, C., Cohn, J., & Scherer, S. (2020). Social and emotional skills training with embodied moxie. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.12962v1 [cs.RO], 1-16. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12962

  • Chapters
    • Girard, J. M., & Cohn, J. F. (2020). Afterword: Generalizability of automated AU detection. In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.
    • Girard, J. M., & Cohn, J. F. (2020). Afterword:  Automated Analysis of Depressed Behavior. In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.
    • Girard, J.M. & Cohn, J.F. Jeni, L.A., Sayette, M.A., & De la Torre, F. (2020). Spontaneous facial expression in unscripted social interactions can be measured automatically.  In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.
    • Schmidt, K.L., Cohn, J.F., & Tian, T. (2020). Signal characteristics of spontaneous facial expressions: Automatic movement in solitary and social smiles.  In P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals (3rd ed.). NY: Oxford.

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2013

  •    Journal articles
  • Published conference proceedings
    • Chu, Wen-Sheng, De la Torre, Fernando, & Cohn, Jeffrey F. (2013). Selective transfer machine for personalized facial action unit detection.Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 3515-3522.Portland, OR.
    • Ding, X., Chu, W.-S., De la Torre, F., Cohn, J. F., & Wang, Q. (2013). Facial action unit event detection by cascade of tasks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision(pp. 2400-2407). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Girard, J. M., Cohn, J. F., Mahoor, M. H., Mavadati, S. M., Rosenwald, D., & Torre, F. D. l. (2013). Manual and automatic analysis of facial affective reactivity in major depressive disorder.Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition,(pp. 1-8). Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Hammal, Z., & Cohn, J. F. (2013). Temporal coordination of head motion in couples with history of interpersonal violence. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, (pp. 1-8). Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Hammal, Z., Cohn, J. F, & Messinger, D. S. (2013). Head movement dynamics during normal and perturbed parent-infant interaction.Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, (pp. 1-7). Geneva, Switzerland. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Jeni, L., Lorincz, A., Szabo, Z., Cohn, J. F., & Kanade, T. (2013). Emotion expression classification using time-series kernels. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, Portland, OR. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Jeni, L., Torre, F. D. l., Girard, J., & Cohn, J. F. (2013). Continuous AU intensity estimation using localized, sparse facial feature space.Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Representation, Analysis and Synthesis in Continuous Time and Space, Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Jeni, Laszlo, Cohn, Jeffrey F, & De la Torre, Fernando. (2013). Facing imbalanced data recommendations for the use of performance metrics. Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Geneva, Switzerland. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Joshi, Jyoti, Goecke, Roland, Braeaksp, Michael, Breakspear, Michael, & Cohn, Jeffrey F. (2013). Relative body parts movement for automatic depression analysis. Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Geneva. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Lorincz, A., Molnar, G., Jeni, L., Toser, Z., Rausch, A., Cohn, J. F., & Csapo, B. (2013). Towards entertaining and efficient educational games.Proceedings of the NIPS Data Driven Education Workshop. Lake Tahoe, NV.
    • McDuff, D., Kaliouby, R. El, Senechal, T., Amr, M., Cohn, J. F, & Picard, R.. (2013). AMFED facial expression dataset: Naturalistic and spontaneous facial expressions collected “in-the-wild”. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Trutoiu, L., Cohn, J. F., & Hodgins, J. (2013). The temporal coordination between smiles and blinks. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.  Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Zaker, N., Mohammad, M. H., Cohn, J. F., Mattson, W., & Messinger, D. S. (2013). A comparison of alternative classifiers for detecting occurrence and intensity in spontaneous facial expression of infants with their mothers. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
    • Zhang, X., Yin, L., Cohn, J.F., Horowitz, A., Reale, M., Canavan, S., Liu, P., et al. (2013 ).A 3D spontaneous dynamic facial expression database. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Shanghai, China. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.

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