Susan A Murphy

Susan A Murphy is a Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science Associate Faculty at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research areas include Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational and Data Science. She is affiliated with the Kempner Institute and leads the Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab. Her contact information is samurphy@fas.harvard.edu, and her profile page can be accessed at https://seas.harvard.edu/person/susan-murphy.

Susan Murphy is a researcher at Harvard University specializing in Sequential decision making in Mobile Health and Statistical Reinforcement Learning. Her work focuses on developing adaptive treatment strategies and dynamic treatment regimes to improve health outcomes through personalized interventions. She has contributed to the design of experimental frameworks such as the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) and the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST), which are used to evaluate and optimize behavioral and health interventions. Her research also addresses challenges in evaluating psychosocial interventions and the statistical methods required for their implementation.