Yanting Han
Research scientist studying emotion, mental health, and AI through large-scale behavioral data, computational modeling, and visualization.
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.
Industry-Relevant Expertise
- Large-scale behavioral data collection
- Computational modeling of emotion and individual differences
- Machine learning, dimensionality reduction, and visualization
- Mental health, affective science, and human-AI relevance
- Open science, data curation, and reproducible research
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 |
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| 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 |