Matt Clark is a fourth year PhD Candidate in the Computer Science Department. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Skidmore College in May 2021, and his Masters of Computer Science from the University of Virginia in August 2023. His work focuses on designing systems that leverage personalized affective messaging to enable more meaningful communication.
Fun fact: I am an avid board game collector. I currently have over 50!
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2024
2023
2022
News
2025
Our paper “Predicting the Severity of Anxiety in Adolescents Through Passively Sensed Behaviors” by Elaine Zhang, Matt Clark, and Afsaneh Doryab has been accepted as a regular paper to the 2025 IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies (IEEE/ACM CHASE ‘25).
2024
PhD Student Matt Clark presented two Melodies papers at UbiComp 2024 in Melbourne, Australia! He also served as a student volunteer for the conference, winning an award for exemplory service!
Our workshop paper “Creating Emotion-Evoking Music to Communicate Wellness for Users with Diverse Musical Backgrounds” by Jason Chin, Matt Clark, and Afsaneh Doryab has been accepted to the WellComp 2024 workshop at UbiComp.
Our paper “Changing Your Tune: Lessons for Using Music to Encourage Physical Activity” by Matt Clark and Afsaneh Doryab has been published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
PhD student Matt Clark recieved the computer science department’s Computer Science Gradaute Service Award, and Andrew Balch received an honorable mention for the undergradaute research award!
PhD student Maria Cardei has been elected to serve as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group. PhD student Matt Clark has been elected to serve as a co-general chair of the Computer Science Graduate Student Group.
2023
Congratulations to Matt Clark for presenting the paper “Sounds of Health: Using Personalized Sonification Models to Communicate Health Information” at UbiComp 2023!
Congratulations to Matt Clark for being selected as one of the Link Lab student flashtalk speakers for his work on Melodies!
Our lab’s 4th year System’s Engineering Capstoene “Personalization in Circadian Rhythm-Based Event Scheduling” by Prachi Sadekar, Jackson Baitinger, Sean Conway, Matt Clark and Afsaneh Doryab has been published in the 2023 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS).
Our paper “Sounds of Health: Using Personalized Sonification Models to Communicate Health Information” by Matt Clark and Afsaneh Doryab has been published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
PhD student Matt Clark has been reelected for another term as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group.
2022
PhD student Matt Clark has been elected to serve as the Social Chair in UVA’s Computer Science Graduate Student Group.