About

Alex Hope received his B.A. in psychology & philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada prior to pursuing a career in psychological research & teaching in New York. Seeing the value of statistical and machine learning approaches within imaging and treatment research for emotional disorders helped motivate his decision to pursue a Master’s in Data Science at the University of British Columbia where he currently resides. Alex’s interests revolve around data collection designs, pipeline development, complex statistics and machine learning implementations for problems across business and healthcare industries.

Served as a teaching adjunct in the Department of Psychology at City University of New York (CUNY). Efforts as a lecturer entailed:

• Developing and delivering weekly lectures with an original curriculum, drawing content from historical and contemporary perspectives and research on human motivation, emotion, clinical disorders, neurobiology, and consciousness.
• Designing quizzes, exams, term papers and presentations and evaluating student performance.
• Mentoring and supervising students in both classroom and research settings

Here are the psychology courses I have taught within the department at CUNY:

• PSYCH 32800: States of Consciousness

• PSYCH 32700: Motivation and Emotion

• PSYCH 25000: Experimental Psychology (Methods in Research)

1. Changes in Resting Heart-Rate Variability Across Emotion Regulation Therapy (April, 2017). Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) Conference. Hilton Union Square, San Francisco, CA. Hope, A.J., Quintero, J.M., Fresco, D.M., & Mennin, D.S.

2. A History of Placebo Therapy & the Validity of Belief (2015). Oral symposium presentation at the Annual History of Medicine Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. Hope, A.J.

3. The History of Chlorpromazine in Psychiatry (2013). Oral symposium presentation at the Annual History of Medicine Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. Hope, A.J., Rossolatos, D., Kroliczek, P.