Andrea Mock

Research

I work on behavioral modeling, LLM evaluation, and human–AI interaction. Methods I use most: longitudinal mixed-effects models, behavioral clustering, NLP, and large-scale evaluation of LLM behavior.

DelusionEval: LLM safety in mental-health contexts

SPIRALS Initiative · Autonomous Agents Lab Jan 2026 – Present

Submitted to NeurIPS 2026

An evaluation framework built on 13,000+ real user messages from psychological distress contexts. DelusionEval surfaces context-dependent failure modes in LLM safety behavior as conversation history evolves. These failures are invisible to single-turn benchmarks.

Master's thesis: adolescent screen-time interventions

Stanford GSE · Advisor: Nick Haber Sep 2025 – Present

In progress

Evaluating digital behavioral interventions on adolescent screen time using longitudinal smartphone logs and mixed-effects models, with trajectory clustering to identify which psychological profiles predict meaningful vs. null change.

Screenome Project: digital behavior and mental health

Stanford · Autonomous Agents Lab Dec 2024 – May 2026

Poster, Society for Digital Mental Health 2026

Constructing high-resolution behavioral time series from 100M+ smartphone screenshots and modeling depressive symptom trajectories with longitudinal CES-D assessments. Findings highlight behavioral precursors of mental health deterioration, with substantial individual heterogeneity.

NLP for urban infrastructure complaints

Fulbright Canada · Mitacs Globalink Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Published: CSCE 2023 & 2024 (Zarei, Mahajan, Mock, Nik-Bakht)

Analyzed 10,000+ online citizen complaints (SeeClickFix, Google Maps) using NLP for sentiment and topic insights on infrastructure concerns like parks, street lights, and roads. Final deliverable combined literature review and empirical findings in urban data analytics.

Quantitative analysis of commencement speeches

Wellesley College · Senior Honors Thesis Feb 2021 – Nov 2021

Honorable Mention, ASA/CAUSE Undergraduate Research Competition

NLP and statistical analysis of 800+ U.S. commencement speeches (1890–2020), tracing temporal shifts in rhetorical patterns, sentiment, and thematic structure across more than a century of public speech.

Political structures and the topology of simplicial complexes

Wellesley · Institute for Mathematics and Democracy Jan 2020 – May 2021

Published: Mathematical Social Sciences, 114, 39–57 (Mock & Volić, 2021)

Co-authored a paper on how political conflicts and compromises can be expressed using simplicial algebraic topology, building on homology theory and current topics in algebraic topology research.

Teaching

I enjoy translating research ideas into things students can use.

Course Assistant

Stanford University Jan – Mar 2025 · Sep 2025 – Mar 2026

CS224G (Building Apps with LLMs Inside) and CS145 (Big Data Systems). Held office hours, designed and graded assignments and exams.

Head of Deep Dives & Instructor

Inspirit AI Jul 2021 – Dec 2025

Lectured on AI for high schoolers and ran the advanced ML "Deep Dives" program for 100+ students. Supported instructors to improve teaching effectiveness.

Teaching Assistant

Wellesley College · Math & CS Department Feb 2020 – Dec 2021

Weekly tutoring for 10–20 students. Graded homework for math courses ranging from calculus to complex analysis.