Emily Mower Provost

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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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      Eisenberg Family Depression Center
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      AI and Digital Health Innovation

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    • 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
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      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
    • Journal Article
      Strength in Numbers, Power in Subjectivity: Scalable Modeling of Individual Annotators for Emotion Recognition Within and Across Corpora
      Tavernor J, Provost EM. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2026 Jan 1; DOI:10.1109/TAFFC.2026.3687422
    • Journal Article
      The persuasive role of generic-you in online interactions
      Niu M, Mower Provost E, Jurgens D, Gelman SA, Kross E, Orvell A. Scientific Reports, 2025 Dec 1; 15 (1): DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-83440-1
      PMID: 39779751
    • Preprint
      SEER: The Span-based Emotion Evidence Retrieval Benchmark
      Sampath A, Aran O, Provost EM. 2025 Oct 8; arXiv, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2510.03490

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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