Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences at UNCG invites applications for the Ashby Dialogues. These dialogues are meant to be informal programs highlighting UNCG as a community of inquiry and understanding. Clinical psychology graduate student Jasper Ying and faculty mentor Dr. Michaeline Jensen reflected the spirit of this program by co-hosting a lecture on February 19, 2026. They invited Dr. Matthew Engelhard of Duke University to participate by giving a talk titled “Toward interpretable, timely, context-aware clinical decision support.” This talk featured Dr. Engelhard’s research how AI and big data can be leveraged to better understand mental health and substance use risk.
When asked what inspired her participation in the Ashby Dialogues, Dr. Jensen said, “This year’s Ashby Dialogues has been focused on the wide-ranging implications of Artificial Intelligence for the human experience. We were excited to invite Dr. Engelhard to join this speaker series, as his work focuses on some of the promising ways that AI can be put to work with electronic health records and other big data to help improve patient mental and physical health outcomes.”
