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Welcome to Cychiatry Lab

Lab for Computational and Digital Psychiatry

Job Openings

Two Postdoc Positions in Computational Psychiatry are Available!

  1. Postdoc position on AI in Electronic Health Records

  2. Postdoc position on Neuroimaging, Genetics and Cognition

Two PhD Student Positions are Available!.

Please click the links above or contact me for details: bcao2@ualberta.ca.

About the PI: Bo “Cloud” Cao

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Trained in mathematics (BSc), psychology (MSc), computational neuroscience (PhD), neuroimaging and psychiatry (postdoc), I have a strong passion for understanding the fundamental mechanisms of how the brain works and how to cure the brain when the mechanisms are disturbed. As the Canada Research Chair in Computational Psychiatry (Tier 2), I am always seeking young talents to work with as graduate students (Masters and PhD) and postdoctoral fellows, who are interested in data-driven research in mental health using multimodal neuroimaging, genetic, cognition, electronic health and administrative data. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in joining our interdisciplinary group or collaborations.

My main research interests are

1) Computational psychiatry and precision medicine in mental health. Dr. Cao aims to develop translational tools that can provide accurate and personalized diagnosis and treatment optimization for mental disorders. This can be achieved by identifying objective biomarkers associated with mental disorders and their treatment outcomes through multimodal data including brain imaging, genetic, biological, behavioral, cognitive and clinical measurements, and by applying advanced machine learning and statistical algorithms to these data. He is also actively working on machine learning applications on large electronic health records in Canada, China and US.

2) Brain development and aging. Our brain is a very plastic organ that changes over the lifespan. It is necessary to consider the brain development and aging and associated cognitive change, when we investigate brain disorders. Dr. Cao is interested in lifespan structural and functional changes of the brain, developing personalized tools of brain development and aging, and applying these tools to the brain with mental disorders.

3) Neuromodulation and neurofeedback. Dr. Cao is collaborating with multiple investigators to develop and validate non-invasive neuromodulation and neurofeedback methods and their application to mental health.

Selected Publications