Curriculum Vitae
Ju-Chi Yu, Ph.D.
Academic position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Aug 2021 — Present
Advisors: Erin Dickie, Ph.D., Colin Hawco, Ph.D., and Stephanie Ameis, MSc, M.D.
Education
Ph.D. Cognition and Neuroscience,
The University of Texas at Dallas Aug 2015 — Aug 2021
Dissertation: Sparse partial least square correspondence analysis (sPLS-CA): applications to genetics and behavioral study
Advisor: Hervé Abdi, Ph.D.
M.Sc. Psychology,
National Cheng Kung University Sep 2013 — Feb 2015
Thesis: Individual differences in working memory capacity and workload capacity
Thesis Advisor: Cheng-Ta Yang, Ph.D.
B.S. Psychology,
National Cheng Kung University Sep 2009 — Jun 2013
Research project: How top-down attentional set and bottom-up relative saliency affect the process of feature recognition
Project Advisor: Cheng-Ta Yang, Ph.D.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Baracchini, G.*, Yu, J.-C.* , Rieck, J., Beaton, D., Guillemot, V., Grady, C., Abdi, H., Spreng, R. N. (2024) covSTATIS: a multi-table technique for network neuroscience. Aperture Neuro, (in press).
Yu, J.-C., Hawco, C., Bassman, L., Oliver, L. D., Argyelan, M., Gold, J. M., Tang, S. X., Foussias, G., Buchanan, R. W., Malhotra, A. K., Ameis, S. H., Voineskos, A. N., Dickie, E. W. (2024) Multivariate Association between Functional Connectivity Gradients and Cognition in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, (in press).
Ng, J., Yu, J.-C., Feusner, J., Hawco, C. (2024) Stable, efficient, and typical dynamic functional connectivity patterns relate to higher general intelligence. Imaging Neuroscience, (in press).
Gallucci, J., Yu, J.-C., Oliver, L. D., Nakua, H., Zhukovsky, P., Dickie, E. W., Foussias, G., Blumberger, D. M., Hawco, C., Voineskos, A. N. (2024) Neural circuitry and therapeutic targeting of depressive symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 910-919. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230655.
Nakua, H., Yu, J.-C., Abdi, H., Hawco, C., Voineskos, A., Hill S., Lai, M.-C., Wheeler, A. L., McIntosh, A. R., Ameis, S. H. (2024) Comparing the stability and reproducibility of brain-behaviour relationships found in Canonical Correlation Analysis and Partial Least Squares within the ABCD Sample. Network Neuroscience, 8, 576-596. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00363.
Abdi, H., Guillemot, V., Liu, R., Niang, N., Saporta, G, & Yu, J.-C. (2024) From plain to sparse correspondence analysis: A principal component analysis approach. Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, 35, 301-338. https://doi.org/10.26398/IJAS.0035-014. (Authors are listed in alphabetical order of last names.)
Yu, J.-C.* , Sokolowski, M.*, Rao, K., Moraglia, L. E., Ardestani Khoubrouy, S., Abdi, H., Levine, B. (2024) Visualization of Latent Components Assessed in O*Net Occupations (VOLCANO): A robust method for standardized conversion of occupational labels to ratio format. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 417-432. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02044-7
Yu, J.-C., Gómez-Corona, C., Abdi, H., & Guillemot, V. (2024) Sparse MFA, sparse STATIS, and sparse DiSTATIS with an application to sensory evaluation. Journal of Chemometrics, 38, e3443. doi:10.1002/cem.3443
Stark, J., Hiersche, K. J., Yu, J.-C., Hasselbach, A. N., Abdi, H., Hayes, S. M. (2023) Partial Least Squares Regression analysis of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, modifiable health variables, and cognitive change in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 93, 633-651.
Krishnan, A., Yu, J.-C., Miles, R., Beaton, D., Rabin, L., & Abdi, H. (2022). Multiblock discriminant correspondence analysis: How to analyze group differences from structured qualitative data. Methods in Psychology, 7, 100100.
Schweinsberg, M., Feldman, M., Staub, N., Bernstein, A., ., Yarkoni, T.,. Uhlmann, E. L. [and 172 others including Yu, J.-C.] (2021). Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysis operationalize and test the same hypothesis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, 228-249.
Fiore, V. G., Guertler, A.-C. V., Yu, J.-C., Tatineni, C. C., & Gu, X. (2021). A change of mind: globus pallidus activity and effective connectivity during changes in choice selections. European Journal of Neuroscience, 53, 2774-2787.
Yu, J.-C.* , Fiore, V. G.*, Briggs, R. W., Braud, J., Rubia, K., Adinoff, B., & Gu, X. (2020). An insula-driven network computes decision uncertainty and promotes abstinence in chronic cocaine users. European Journal of Neuroscience, 52, 4923-4936.
Yang, C.-T., Wang, C.-H., Chang, T.-Y., Yu, J.-C., & Little, D. R. (2019). Cue-driven changes in detection strategies reflect trade-offs in strategic efficiency. Computational Brain & Behavior, 2, 109-127.
Yang, C.-T., Yu, J.-C., & Chang, W.-S. (2016). Using systems factorial technology to investigate cognitive processing in redundant visual-auditory signals. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 58, 1-20.
Yu, J.-C., Chang, T.-Y., & Yang, C.-T. (2014). Individual differences in working memory capacity and workload capacity. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1465.
Conference Proceedings
Yu, J.-C., Hawco, C., Oliver, L. D., Secara, M. T., Moxon-Emre, I., Sandhu, F. A., Khan, Z. Z., Szatmari, P., Argyelan, M., Gold, J. M., Tang, S., Foussias, G., Buchanan, R. W., Malhotra, A. K., Voineskos, A. N., Ameis, S. H., Dickie, E. W. (2024) Multivariate transdiagnostic neural biomarkers of Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorders during the empathic accuracy task. Biological Psychiatry, 95 (Supplementary Issue 10), S379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.878.
Oliver, L. D., Hawco, C., Calarco, N., Yu, J.-C., Moxon-Emre, I., Tan, T., Gold, J. M., Foussias, G., DeRosse, P., Argyelan, M., Buchanan, R. W., Malhotra, A. K., & Voineskos, A. N. (2022). Multivariate relationships between social cognitive performance and functional connectivity during task and rest across schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy controls. Biological Psychiatry, 46 (Supplementary Issue 9), S316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.798.
Yu, J.-C., Chang, T.-Y., & Yang, C.-T. (2014). Working memory capacity predicts workload capacity. Visual Cognition, 22(8), 1046-1049.
Teaching Experience
Educational Courses Instructor, The 2024 Sensometircs Conference Jun 2024 Instructor, Partial Least Squares Correlation Tutorial, 2024 BrainHack school May 2023 — Jun 2023
Leading Teaching Assistant, 2023 BrainHack school May 2023 — Jun 2023
Instructor, The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatic-the Scientific Computing Workshops, CAMH Dec 2022, 2023
Courses: Introduction to MRI with BIDS
Co-Instructor, The University of Texas at Dallas Spring 2019
Courses: Research Method II
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Dallas Spring 2018 — 2021
Courses: Research Method II
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Dallas Fall 2018 — 2021
Courses: Advanced Research Method, Advanced Research Methods in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Data Analysis Using R
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Dallas Fall 2016 — Spring 2017 Courses: Research Design and Analysis
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Dallas Spring 2016 Courses: Experimental Project
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Dallas Fall 2015
Courses: Introduction to Psychology
Teaching Assistant, National Cheng Kung University 2012 — 2013
Courses: Statistics and Data Analysis (including SAS and R programming)
Service and Outreach
Open Science Room Chair, OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group Jul 2024 — present
Guest Editor, Aperture Neuro Special Issue - “Open Datasets: Impact, Infrastructure, and Governance”
Organizer, Taiwan Open Science Days in Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences
Co-Organizer, the 2024 Brainhack Global Toronto
Member, Technology and Services Working Group, Controlled Access Management of Research Data Initiative, Digital Research Alliance
Member, Data Stewardship Working Group, Controlled Access Management of Research Data Initiative, Digital Research Alliance
Moderator, the 2024 OHBM Open Science Room panel - Who pays the bill? Jun 2024
Moderator, the 2024 OHBM Open Science Room panel - Open Science in Asia/Korea
Moderator, the 2024 OHBM Open Science Room table talk - Open Science in Asia/Korea
Volunteering staff, the 2024 OHBM Brainhack
Hub Organizer, the 2024 Brainhack School Mar 2024 — present
Session Chair, Imaging Network Ontario Symposium Judge, Imaging Network Ontario Mar 2024
Open Science Room Chair-Elect, OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group Sep 2023 — Jul 2024
Co-Organizer, the 2023 Brainhack Global Toronto Sep 2023 — Dec 2023
Volunteer, the 2023 OHBM Open Science Room Jul 2023
Volunteer, the 2023 OHBM Brainhack
Co-Organizer, the 2022 Brainhack Global TorontoSep 2022 — Dec 2022
Volunteer Session Host, the 2022 OHBM Open Science Room Jun 2022
Volunteer, the 2021 Brainhack Global TorontoSep 2021 — Nov 2021
Organizer, the 2019 Brainhack Global DallasOct 2019 — Nov 2019