ANYA OKHMATOVSKAIA has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Moscow University, and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Between 2004 and 2006 she was working as a Research Assistant at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies in the area of computational modeling of emotion. Since 2006 Anya Okhmatovskaia is a research associate at the McGill Clinical and Health Informatics Research group. Her main interests lie in knowledge modeling and agent-based simulation of population health. Her email address is anna.okhmatovskaia@mcgill.ca.