About Me
My name is Yuan Minghao (袁明昊). I am a undergraduate student of Yuanpei College, Peking University. I am interested in computational psychology and mental health. Now I am a research assistant in Depression and Anxiety Computational Neuroscience Lab (DACN Lab) mentored by Dr. Yujia Peng.
Education
BS in Psychology
Peking University • 2022-Present
Research Focus
Cognitive Modeling
Developing computational models for social cognitive process, such as Bayesian models for decision making.
Network Analysis
Using graph theory and network analysis to solve problems in mental health.
Publications
2025
Lv, M., Chen, S., Jin, H., Yuan, M., Ju, Q., Peng, Y., Zhu, K. Q., & Wu, M. (2025). Tracking life's ups and downs: Mining life events from social media posts for mental health analysis. Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).
Honors & Awards
CMC Scholarship
Peking University
The First Prize of Peking University Scholarship
Peking University
The 93rd-94th Soh Bing Scholarship
Soh Bing Scholarship Foundation
Technical Skills
Python
PyTorch, NumPy, SciKit-Learn
Statistics
R, SPSS
Research Notes
Meta-Analysis Tutorial in R
A Chinese Meta-analysis tutorial in R language, based on Doing Meta-Analysis with R: A Hands-On Guide.
Continue Reading →RStan: the R interface to Stan
Chinese translation of RStan: the R interface to Stan, a vignette providing an introduction to fitting a model in RStan.
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