I. Experience 

• Research Professor at Fudan University, China

• Visiting Senior Lecturer in King’s College, London, UK

• Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK 

II. Impact 

• Publications on mental health research (e.g. Nature Mental Health, JAMA Psychiatry, etc.), neuroimaging (e.g. Science Advances, Nature Communications, etc.), and multidisciplinary research  (e.g., Sci Bull, Nat Hum Beh, etc.).

• Invited Commentary in JAMA Psychiatry

• Editorial Board Member for Psychological Medicine

• Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuroimaging

• International media coverage, such as Nature, BBC, the Conversation, etc.

III. Leadership 

• PI of 5 competitive grants at the national level in China 

• Former postdocs and PhD students on my grants now work at top universities, including Harvard, Tsinghua, and Fudan 

• Strong connections with the top hospitals in China, including Shanghai Mental Health Institute (annual outpatient volume>800K; schizophrenia), Xinhua (autism), Xiangya (depression), Huashan (trauma)

IV. Research Interests

• Multi-scale integrative approach for population neuroscience. -- Adolescent brain development and its implications for health

• Granger causality with signal-dependent noise. --Causal structure estimated from time series data 

• Systems Biology -- Sequence analysis, genetic regulatory network, protein specificity

• Evolutionary algorithms -- Genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization

Main Collaborators

Jianfeng Feng @Warwick;  

Gunter Schumann @KCL;    

Wei Lin @Fudan;

Barbara Sahakian; 

Trevor Robbins; 

Ed Bullmore;

Samuel Chamberlain; 

Rudolf Cardinal @Cambridge;

Read Montague @VTC;     

Lena Palaniyappan @Western;   

Qiang Chen @LIBD;

Gabriel Robert @Rennes;

Ching-Po Lin @Yang-ming;           

Fei Li @Xinhua;                   

Chunbo Li @SMHC;        

Weidan Pu @Xiangya.