Amy Cochran, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Departments of Mathematics & Population Health Sciences
Affiliate Faculty, BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine
Address:
WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Population Health profile Website
EDUCATION
BS: University of Vermont, Physics
PhD: Cornell University, Applied Math
Postdoc: Cornell University, Math
Postdoc: University of Michigan, Math
Postdoc: University of Michigan–Madison, Math
Amy Cochran received her PhD in Applied Math from Cornell University. She has previously held positions as an Assistant Scientist in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at UW–Madison and as a Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor within the Mathematics Department at the University of Michigan. She joined the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Math as a faculty member in 2019.
Her main interest is Computational Psychiatry, an emerging field that aims to place subjective beliefs and behavior within a mathematical framework. Her current work proposes and verifies computational phenotypes of mood and anxiety disorders. Her professional goal is to demonstrate that these phenotypes more closely reflect underlying pathological processes, thereby strengthening subsequent inferences from clinical and biological studies. As an applied mathematician working in Psychiatry, collaborative science central aspect of her research. She is part of the Women’s Mental Health Program at UW–Madison.