Ali Mattu, Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer @ Oriscen Inc.
About
I believe being with people is the most powerful mental health tool we have. And the most meaningful thing any of us can do is be the best part of someone else's day.Social media was supposed to make that easier. Instead, it runs on the loneliness economy, engineered to keep us watching instead of showing up.I’m a clinical psychologist who spent years watching this machine get built. Now, as Cofounder & Chief Science Officer at Oriscen, I am actively building the technology to fight back. We are creating the digital bridge to the physical world. Using behavioral science to optimize for offline attendance, mutual effort, and real chemistry so people can skip the small talk and find their crew.My obsession with why friendship is getting harder stems from my clinical roots. I spent a decade at New York's best hospitals treating anxiety, panic, and social anxiety disorders before leaving my role as Assistant Professor at Columbia University Medical Center to make mental health education accessible to everyone.That work grew into a YouTube channel with over 350,000 subscribers and 20 million views. My work has been featured on Netflix, HBO, and The New York Times. I also once got roasted by John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, which felt like a strange but solid endorsement.I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife, our two kids, and a lot of books about Star Trek, psychology, and the future.People, not pixels 🖖🏽
United States
San Francisco Bay Area
Mental Health Care
Science Communication, Community Building, Community Dynamics & Social Architecture, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Applied Behavioral Science, Behavioral Product Design, Human-Centric Systems Design, Storytelling, Video Production, Public Speaking, Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Mental Health Counseling, Behavioral Health, Clinical Psychology, Psychology, CBT, DBT, Children, Adolescents
Experience
Chief Science Officer
Oriscen Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
At Oriscen, we are building the digital bridge to the physical world. As Chief Science Officer, I lead the integration of psychological principles and behavioral science into our community-building frameworks. My work focuses on reversing the loneliness economy. Instead of optimizing for screen time, I model human dynamics to optimize for offline attendance, mutual effort, and real chemistry. Key Focus Areas: Architecting Connection: Designing the psychological frameworks that allow users to skip the small talk and bond over shared experiences. High-Value Matching: Developing systems that ensure users meet people who actually show up and are a good fit. Behavioral Product Design: Bridging the gap between psychology and technology to mitigate social friction, reduce the mental load of initiating, and make real-world connection feel natural and accessible.
Executive Producer and Principal
Mind Stuff LLC
San Francisco Bay Area
Mind Stuff LLC is the production company created by Dr. Ali Mattu. The Psych Show, its flagship show, heads ventures into online channels, television, film, books, and live performances.
Director of Mental Health
Scenario
California, United States
Director of mental health at a startup where I'm implementing a behavior change program, creating mental health and wellness programming, overseeing user safety, and developing mental health policy for a new social platform.
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
As a clinical psychologist at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders, I provided individual and group cognitive behavior therapy to a child, adolescent, young adult, and adult outpatient population. I also provided supervision and training to psychology and psychiatry trainees and collaborated in the development of our Launching Emerging Adults Program in the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Youth Anxiety Center.
Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow
NYU Langone Health
NYU Child Study Center, NYU Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
At the NYU Child Study Center, I provided individual and group cognitive behavior therapy to a child and adolescent outpatient population. I also served on the center’s dialectical behavior therapy team and provided supervision to psychiatry fellows.
Psychology Intern
NYC Health + Hospitals
Greater New York City Area
As a psychology intern at the Bellevue Hospital Center, I provided individual psychotherapy to a child, adolescent, and adult outpatient population. I also completed major rotations in the hospital’s Child and Adolescent Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, Adolescent Inpatient Program, and Palliative Care Service.
Education
UCLA
Psychology, Asian American Studies
The Catholic University of America
Clinical Psychology
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