Xin Feng (PI, Human Development & Family Science), Ping Zhang (Co-PI, Computer Science & Engineering), and I (Co-PI) have been awarded a Big Idea Seed Grant. Dean Don Pope-Davis started this grant program to support faculty engaged in research to address a well-defined social, educational or health problem or disparity with the goal of identifying solutions by fostering innovation. Our project ‘Children’s Biobehavioral Regulation of Emotion in Naturalistic Environment and the Effect of Maternal Depression’ will examine children’s biobehavioral regulation in naturalistic home settings and explore the use of new AI-based speech recognition programs to analyze child speech samples.