Dr Gavin Doherty is a Professor in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Gavin.Doherty). He obtained his doctorate at the University of York, UK.

He conducts research in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), with a focus on digital health, and leads the Health Technology Design Group at TCD (https://htd.scss.tcd.ie). The ultimate goal of his research is to better understand human interactions with technology, and use this understanding in the design of new technologies.

In the area of digital mental health, he has led a team in the development of a series of innovative technology interventions which have had a profound impact on the delivery of digital mental health services worldwide. He led the development of the SilverCloud platform for human-supported online mental health interventions, which has been used to deliver evidence-based interventions to over 1 million people. The focus of his work has been on supporting and extending the reach of mental health professionals, and designing engaging systems in which clients have a greater degree of agency. Recent work has investigated human-centred approaches to the integration of machine learning in mental health.  He is a Distinguished Member of the ACM, serves on the ACM Practitioners Board, and is Chair of the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program (https://speakers.acm.org). He has published extensively in Human-Computer Interaction and medical informatics venues, including three best papers (top 1%) at the ACM CHI Conference.