Cory is focused on innovating within the rapidly changing consumer healthcare technology market. He is the founder and CEO of Catalia Health, a company that delivers effective behavior change for challenges across healthcare. Catalia Health creates long-term engagement with patients in order to improve quality of care and deliver data and patient reported outcomes to providers. His experience lies in consumer healthcare applications of new technologies, with expertise in developing simple interfaces to complex systems and the application of healthcare technologies to everyday life. Specialties: Consumer healthcare technology, public speaking, user interfaces, human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, behavior change

Founder and CEO @ Catalia Health delivers effective behavior change everywhere. Our cloud-based behavior change platform engages patients by delivering conversations through mobile, web, and friendly robotic interfaces. From July 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBoard Member and Advisor @ From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisor @ From November 2014 to Present (1 year) Mentor @ HAXLR8R is a startup accelerator focused on getting hardware startups off the ground as quickly and efficiently as possible. Located in the heart of the world's manufacturing and electronics capital in Shenzhen, China, HAXLR8R is a leader in helping founders make physical things and turn that passion into companies. I have served as a mentor to the companies since the first iteration of the program, discussing our experience prototyping, building, and selling a new product with a significant hardware component. From January 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) Shenzhen, Guangdong, ChinaAdvisor @ From February 2015 to Present (9 months) Startup in Residence CEO @ Worked for five months with the IDEO San Francisco studio as the Startup in Residence. Managed the Catalia Health team and interactions with many of our great IDEO colleagues during the time we were in the studio. Catalia Health worked with IDEO on designing our new robotic personal healthcare companion, on marketing and branding for the company, and on user experience design for our product. From December 2014 to April 2015 (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaConsultant @ iMatchative is creating AltX, a state of the art, automated matching platform that provides hedge funds and investors with superior, more intelligent tools to use when searching for investment opportunities. My role is to translate the work of the psychology team into tools in the web-based product in order to effectively leverage the academic and research expertise within the organization. From January 2014 to November 2014 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaConsultant @ Planet is a satellite startup that has the largest fleet of commercial satellites in space as of mid-2014. Their goal is to provide the most current images of the entire earth to their customers. I am helping the team with ground station operations -- finding and acquiring locations, assisting with the installation of antennas and dishes, and ensuring the ongoing independent operation of each satellite ground station. From January 2014 to September 2014 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaFounder and CEO @ Intuitive Automata created interactive robotic coaches to help people with long-term healthcare challenges. Our platform was designed to allow our coaches to create, build up, and maintain a long-term relationship with an individual. The first product that we built on top of this is the Autom™ weight loss coach. We started IA based on the work I did for my Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab and Boston University Medical Center. Founded in 2007, the company took that academic work and turned it into a platform and product that enables long-term behavior change healthcare applications to be more effective. From January 2007 to June 2014 (7 years 6 months) Hong Kong and San FranciscoMentor @ AcceleratorHK is a three month startup accelerator program based in Hong Kong and focused on companies doing hybrid mobile development. I have served as one of the mentors to the companies since the program's inception. From 2012 to June 2013 (1 year) Hong KongVisiting Lecturer @ I taught graduate-level courses on social robotics to Masters and Ph.D. students at PolyU. The interdisciplinary classes were housed within the School of Design and developed students' understanding of the intersection among computer science, engineering, psychology, and design. The courses were largely project-based, which meant that the semester concluded with students presenting novel robots that did something useful and interesting in the real world. From 2008 to 2011 (3 years) Ph.D. Candidate @ My Ph.D. work at the MIT Media Lab focused on long-term human-robot interaction (HRI). The coursework I assembled ranged from AI to psychology to experimental design. I also spent much of my time in real-world environments to better understand and conduct hands-on studies of how technology is used and adopted or rejected. This included a year of observing interaction with simple social robots in elderly care facilities and three years in the Nutrition and Weight Management Clinic at Boston University Medical Center. This work concluded with the successful defense of a dissertation on long-term HRI focused on healthcare applications of social robots. I conducted a randomized, controlled medical trial of a weight loss coach at Boston Medical that showed that this new interface was significantly more effective than existing programs for helping individuals adhere to a weight loss program. From August 2001 to December 2007 (6 years 5 months) Summer Intern - Human-Robot Interaction @ During a six month period, I helped researchers at MERL to test their work on embedded conversational agents using interactive robots. Using their software and hardware (MERL's Mel robot), I helped to develop a demonstration-based conversation between the robot and users and carried out extensive human-robot interaction studies to better understand the nature of this interaction. This work led to a conference paper and a journal paper in Artificial Intelligence, a top AI academic journal. From May 2003 to December 2003 (8 months) Research Faculty and Lab Manager @ Continuing my previous work as a research assistant, I oversaw the construction, completion, and establishment of a variety of research projects in a novel, home-based research environment known as the Aware Home Research Lab. Housed within Georgia Tech's College of Computing and the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute, the Aware Home's research focus was specifically on aging in place applications of technology for seniors and included work in sensors, applications, deployment, and testing of these technologies. As a research faculty member, I taught courses on related technologies, advised undergraduate students, and oversaw numerous senior research projects that were related to our areas of focus. From May 2000 to June 2001 (1 year 2 months) Special Assistant @ Served as a legislative aid to Representative Curtis Jenkins. From January 2000 to April 2000 (4 months) Software Engineer Co-Op @ Helped to develop software test suite for verification of the Access Node Express line of products. Also led the Nortel Co-op Council for the 50+ interns and co-op students per term. From 1998 to 1999 (1 year) Greater Atlanta AreaSoftware Engineer Co-Op @ Assisted with the design and development of an operator user interface for the recreation of a foreign surface-to-air missile system to be used in US war games operations. Did design, implementation, and optimization of C code to run on a Unix and VxWorks platforms for real-time user interface updates to accurately reflect the original system. Integrated with radar system input to create appropriate on-screen outputs for the operators. From 1996 to 1998 (2 years) Greater Atlanta Area

PhD, Media Arts and Sciences (Media Lab) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2003 to 2007 MS, Media Arts and Sciences @ MIT From August 2001 to 2003 BS, Computer Science @ Georgia Institute of Technology From September 1995 to 2000 Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science @ Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Performing Arts (LSMSA) From September 1993 to 1995 Cory Kidd is skilled in: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Human-robot Interaction, Human Computer..., Computer Science, Public Speaking, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Product Development, Machine Learning, Robot, Mobile Applications, Algorithms, Image Processing, Software Engineering, Software Development, User Interface, Programming, Embedded Systems, Computer Vision, Sensors, User Interface Design, User Experience, Big Data