Yanting Han

Research scientist studying emotion, mental health, and AI through large-scale behavioral data, computational modeling, and visualization.

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Hello! This is Yanting Han.

I study emotions, individual differences, and mental health by combining large-scale behavioral data collection, computational modeling, and interactive visualization. My research asks how subjective experiences are structured, how they vary across people, and how those insights can inform mental health and human-centered AI.

Research focus. Large-scale behavioral data collection, statistical modeling, dimensionality reduction, clustering, text analysis, and interactive visualization for emotion, individual differences, mental health, and human-centered AI.

Selected work. Dimensional Space of Human Emotions maps subjective emotion experience across narratives, videos, and real-life reports. COVID-Dynamic Longitudinal Study tracks psychological change during the COVID-19 pandemic through longitudinal behavioral data and public research resources.

Employment and Education

2024/3 - Present
Independent Researcher
2022/7 - 2024/2
Postdoctoral Scientist
California Institute of Technology, USA
2016/9 - 2022/6
Ph.D, Neuroscience/Psychology
California Institute of Technology, USA
2012/9 - 2016/6
B.S, Engineering Physics
Tsinghua University, China