Emily Mower Provost

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Associate Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Division of Computer and Systems Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School
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Emily Mower Provost
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    • Center Member
      Robotics Institute
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      e-Health and Artificial Intelligence Initiative
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      AI and Digital Health Innovation
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      Eisenberg Family Depression Center

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    • Chapter
      Human Behavior Analysis and Interaction for Emotional Intelligence: Advances, Challenges, and the Road Ahead — EI-MiGA 2026
      Chen H, Ren Z, Wang J, Provost EM, Adeli E, Schuller BW, Schultz T, Zhao G. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2026 Aug 13; 3120: Human Behavior Analysis and Interaction for Emotional Intelligence, 1 - 14. DOI:10.1007/978-981-92-4529-1_1
    • Journal Article
      Preface
      Chen H, Ren Z, Wang J, Provost E, Adeli E, Schuller BW, Schultz T, Zhao G. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2027 Jan 1; 3120 CCIS: v - vi.
    • Preprint
      Cleaner Speech, Weaker Generalization: Revisiting Pitt-Derived Benchmarks for Alzheimer's Disease Detection
      Sun L, Chandra SS, Zhang L, Li Y-J, MacWhinney B, Tsao Y, Provost EM, Sisman B. 2026 Sep 3; arXiv,
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      Contrastive Distillation of Emotion Knowledge from LLMS for Zero-Shot Emotion Recognition
      Niu M, Provost EM. 2026 Apr 23; 00: 16427 - 16431. DOI:10.1109/icassp55912.2026.11463749
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      It Is Personal: The Importance of Personalization for Recognizing Self-Reported Emotion
      Tavernor J, Provost EM. 2026 Apr 23; 00: 16202 - 16206. DOI:10.1109/icassp55912.2026.11461446
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      What You Feel is not What They See: on Predicting Self-Reported Emotion from Third-Party Observer Labels
      El-Tawil Y, Sampath A, Provost EM. 2026 Apr 23; 00: 16212 - 16216. DOI:10.1109/icassp55912.2026.11463580
    • Preprint
      Who is Speaking or Who is Depressed? A Controlled Study of Speaker Leakage in Speech-Based Depression Detection
      Yeh H-C, Sun L, Mahapatra A, Chandra SS, Provost EM, Sisman B. 2026 Apr 18; arXiv, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2604.14354
    • Preprint
      What You Feel Is Not What They See: On Predicting Self-Reported Emotion from Third-Party Observer Labels
      El-Tawil Y, Sampath A, Provost EM. 2026 Jan 31; arXiv, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2601.21130

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    Department News

    U-M students, staff debate use of AI for therapy

    Drs. Stephan Taylor and Emily Mower Provost quoted in The Michigan Daily
         A close-up of a person’s ear as they insert a beige behind-the-ear hearing aid, using both hands to position the device properly.
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    U-M Receives NIH Grant to Study How Social Networks Influence Hearing Aid Use Among Older Adults

    The University of Michigan and University of Texas at Austin have received an NIH grant to study how social networks and daily interactions impact hearing aid use among older adults, aiming to improve hearing health interventions.
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    An Update: Predicting Individual Outcomes for Rapid Intervention (PRIORI)

    Drs. Sarah Sperry and Emily Mower Provost provide an update on the PRIORI technology