Yuan Minghao

Ph.D. student · DACN Lab
Peking University, Beijing

My name is Yuan Minghao (袁明昊). I am a Ph.D. student in the Depression and Anxiety Computational Neuroscience Lab (DACN Lab), mentored by Dr. Yujia Peng at Peking University. My research focuses on computational psychiatry and mental health, with particular interests in computational modeling, network analysis, and quantitative approaches to understanding human behavior and mental health. I am also interested in research methods on complex psychological systems, including causal inference, computational modeling, digital phenotyping, and behavioral data science (behavioromics).

I welcome collaboration opportunities on research related to mental health, computational psychiatry, quantitative methods, and related interdisciplinary topics.

Education

Ph.D. in Applied Psychology — School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University (2026 - 2031)
B.Sc. in Psychology — Yuanpei College, Peking University (2022 - 2026)

Publications

Tracking Life's Ups and Downs: Mining Life Events from Social Media Posts for Mental Health Analysis
Minghao Lv, Siyuan Chen, Haoan Jin, Minghao Yuan, Qianqian Ju, Yujia Peng, Kenny Q. Zhu, and Mengyue Wu · ACL 2025 · [DOI]

† Equal contribution · * corresponding author. Full list on Google Scholar.

Projects

psychHypergraph

psychHypergraph implements information-theoretic hypergraph analysis for psychometric data, based on Marinazzo et al. (2024) and Possenti et al. (2026). The package provides tools for constructing psychometric hypergraphs, identifying synergistic and redundant higher-order interactions, centrality analysis, clustering, and visualization.

View on GitHub →

Services

Conference Reviewer: WWW (2024)
Journal Reviewer: BMC psychology

Teaching Experience

Advanced Psychological Research Methods (graduate) — Peking University (Spring 2026)
Teaching assistant
Experimental Psychology (undergraduate) — Peking University (Fall 2025)
Teaching assistant

Awards & Honors

2025 — The Second Prize of Peking University Scholarship, PKU
2024 — CMC Scholarship, PKU
2023 — The First Prize of Peking University Scholarship, PKU
2022 — The 93rd-94th Soh Bing Scholarship, Soh Bing Scholarship Foundation

Blog · 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.

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.

📻 Amateur Radio Operator (HAM)
Call sign: BD1EHN
Active in VHF/UHF amateur radio networks. QTH: Beijing, China