Sean X. Luo, MD, PhD

Dr. Luo is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Division on Substance Use Disorders, and Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He attended University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics and completed his training through the Medical Scientist Training Program at Columbia University, in computational neuroscience. He completed psychiatry training at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute and a NIDA funded T32 research fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at Columbia. Dr. Luo’s current research interest lies at the interface of statistics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and addiction psychiatry. Active research projects focus on bottom-up and top-down approaches to develop new algorithms and models to better match patients with substance use disorders to treatment. There is also significant interest in developing novel biomarkers and signal processing methods to extract predictive information from neuroscience-inspired human research methods.