Computational psychiatry & mental health
Understanding minds,
through computational science.
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, network science, behavioral data science, and large language model (LLM).
I welcome collaboration opportunities on research related to mental health, computational psychiatry, quantitative methods, LLM, and related interdisciplinary topics.
- Computational modeling
- Network science
- Causal inference
- Behavioral data science
- Large language models
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
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Revealing dichotomous prior biases in social anxiety through a social prism model
Yuxi Wang, Qianqian Ju*, Renhe Jia, Minghao Yuan, Yujia Peng* · PLOS Computational Biology · 2026 · [DOI] -
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] -
Altered Interpersonal Space in Social Anxiety: A Computational Study in Virtual Reality
Minghao Yuan, Jiayin Xiao, Yujia Peng* · under review -
psychHypergraph: Information-Theoretic Hypergraph Analysis for Psychometric Data Using R
Minghao Yuan · under review
Projects
psychHypergraph
View on GitHub →
Services
- Conference Reviewer: WWW (2025)
- Journal Reviewer: BMC Psychology
Teaching Experience
- Experimental Psychology (undergraduate) — Peking University (Fall 2026)
Teaching assistant - Advanced Psychological Research Methods (graduate) — Peking University (Spring 2026)
Teaching assistant - Experimental Psychology (undergraduate) — Peking University (Fall 2025)
Teaching assistant
Awards & Honors
- 2026 — Excellent Graduate, PKU
- 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
Getting started with psychHypergraph
Meta-Analysis Tutorial in R
RStan: the R interface to Stan
Interests
- 📻 Amateur Radio Operator (HAM)
Call sign: BD1EHN
Active in VHF/UHF amateur radio networks. QTH: Beijing, China
Get in touch
I welcome research collaborations in mental health, computational psychiatry, quantitative methods, and LLMs.
rheniumyuan@foxmail.com
Beijing, China
Last updated October 2026.