Our team brings together university faculty, developers, staff assistants, fellows, and students from a variety of fields, including behavioral science, public health, medicine, and psychology.
We think this gives us a unique perspective when tackling most problems.
Tyler Wray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Wray joined the faculty at Brown University in 2015, and co-founded SMASH Labs with other faculty that year. His interests are in ways that technology can be used to improve sexual health across the spectrum of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Read more here.
Mark Celio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Research)
Dr. Celio is a clinical psychologist who joined the Brown University faculty in 2016 and helped co-found SMASH Labs. His work primarily involves studying how social and contextual factors influence the decisions people make about their sexual health. Read more here.
Erik Ocean
Project Coordinator & Public Health Graduate Student
Erik joined our team in 2015 after graduating from the University of Rhode Island's international engineering program with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a B.A. in Spanish. His interests are in global and minority health, including sexual and gender minorities and immigrant populations. In 2018 Erik was accepted into the Masters in Public Health program, which he is completing part-time with a generalist concentration. His theses are looking at alcohol use norms among MSM and barriers and facilitators to PrEP adherence.
Daniel Carr, MS
Senior Research Assistant
Daniel joined SMASH Labs in 2017 after earning his Master's degree in Health Psychology from Cardiff Metropolitan University. Daniel's areas of interest include proactive and preventative healthcare, and more widely, the use of qualitative approches in health research. In his free time, Daniel loves botany, ornithology, and all things nature!
John Guigayoma, MPH
Public Health Doctoral Student
John joined our team in 2019 with a master of public health degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining SMASH Labs, John coordinated HIV testing programs at various community based organizations in California as well as worked in HIV behavioral health research for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. John's research interests include pre-exposure prophylaxis use among men who have sex with men and the development and implementation of behavioral health interventions via smartphone technologies.
Siddhi Nadkarni
Undergraduate HIV Phone Test Counselor
Siddhi joined our team in 2020 and is a senior at Brown University, concentrating in Health and Human Biology with a focus on Global Health. She is especially interested in culturally competent community health, health disparities, and preventive healthcare. In her free time, you can find Siddhi roaming around Providence in search of the best coffee shops and bookstores.
Employment Opportunities
Interested in technology and health? Want to join our team?
We’ll post info about paid opportunities with our team here. But, we’re always looking for passionate students and volunteers with similar interests to help advance our mission and learn new things! So, if you’re interested in helping out, get in touch with us anytime!