# Crowd-Powered Machine Learning to Diagnose ASD and ADHD in Adolescents from Digital Social Interactions

> **NIH NIH DP2** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2023 · $1,215,463

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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11259870
- **Project number:** 7DP2EB035858-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Peter Washington
- **Activity code:** DP2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $1,215,463
- **Award type:** 7
- **Project period:** 2023-09-21 → 2026-09-20

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11259870

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11259870, Crowd-Powered Machine Learning to Diagnose ASD and ADHD in Adolescents from Digital Social Interactions (7DP2EB035858-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11259870. Licensed CC0.

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