Welcome to the PAIR Lab
Personal AI is rapidly entering everyday life—through phones, wearables, smart home devices, and emerging platforms we are only beginning to understand. These technologies will reshape mental health—how we relate, how we cope, how we live.
With social media, we learned the cost of waiting until after mass adoption to study impacts. We now have a chance to do it differently: to anticipate change, ask hard questions early, and help shape how these technologies develop.
The PAIR Lab is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Rochester, associated with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide. Our mission is to advance the understanding of how personal AI and robotics can support mental health and suicide prevention through rigorous, collaborative, and ethically grounded research.
Lab Members
NIMH-funded postdoctoral positions may be available.
Selected Publications
- Herington, J., Li, K., & Pisani, A. R. (2024). Expanding the role of justice in secondary research using digital psychological data. American Psychologist, 79(1), 123.
- Pisani, A. R., Wyman, P. A., Cero, I., Kelberman, C., Gurditta, K., Judd, E., ... & Ertefaie, A. (2024). Text Messaging to Extend School-Based Suicide Prevention: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Mental Health, 11, e56407.
- Pisani, A. R., Wyman, P. A., Mohr, D. C., Perrino, T., Gallo, C., Villamar, J., ... & Brown, C. H. (2016). Human subjects protection and technology in prevention science: selected opportunities and challenges. Prevention Science, 17(6), 765-778.
- Pisani, A. R., Kanuri, N., Filbin, B., Gallo, C., Gould, M., Lehmann, L. S., ... & Ranney, M. L. (2019). Protecting user privacy and rights in academic data-sharing partnerships: principles from a pilot program at Crisis Text Line. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(1), e11507.
Contact Us
PAIR Laboratory
University of Rochester Medical Center
300 Crittenden Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14642