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 Sep 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: Herv� 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
Book chapter
Abdi, H., B�ra, M., Guillemot V., Krishnan, A., Yu J.-C. (in press). Correspondance Analysis. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. 3rd Ed.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Yu, J.-C.*, Chan, M. Y.*, Han, L., Dickie, E. W., Abdi, H. IndivSTATIS: A multivariate approach to analyze brain network configurations with individualized parcellation. Imaging Neuroscience, (major revision).
Yu, J.-C., Ameis, S. H., Oliver, L.D., Rashidi, A. G., Secara, M. T., Moxon-Emre, I., Sandhu, F. A., Khan, Z. Z., Szatmari, P., Lai, M.-C., Argyelan, M., Gold, J. M., Tang, S., Foussias, G., Buchanan, R. W., Malhotra, A. K., Voineskos, A. N., Hawco, C.*, Dickie, E. W.* Perceptual and social axes of functional brain connectivity reveal different network segregation effects related to social cognitive performance across autism, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and controls. Neuropsychopharmacology, (major revision).
Rashidi A. G., Oliver, L. D., Wang W., Yu, J.-C., Secara, M. T., Foussias, G., Dickie, E., Szatmari, P., Desarkar, P., Buchanan, R. W., Malhotra, A. K., Lai, M.-C., Voineskos, A. N., Hawco, C., Ameis, S. H. Transdiagnostic Factor Structure of Social and Non-Social Cognition: Associations with Clinical Symptoms and Functioning Across Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. Translational Psychiatry, (under review).
Secara, M. T., Khan, Z., Rashidi, A., Oliver, L. D., Yu, J.-C., Foussias, G., Dickie, E., Szatmari, P., Desarkar, P., Lai, M.-C., Baracchini, G., Malhotra, A., Buchanan, R. W., Voineskos, A., Ameis, S., Hawco, C. (2026) Transdiagnostic Profiles of BOLD Signal Variability in Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Associations with Cognition and Functioning. Human Brain Mapping, (accepted).
Oliver, L. D., Yu, J.-C., Hawco, C., Calarco, N., Moxon-Emre, I., Tan, T., Gold, J. M., Foussias, G., DeRosse, P., Argyelan, M., Buchanan, R. W., Malhotra, A. K., & Voineskos, A. N. (2026) Multivariate relationships between social cognitive performance and functional connectivity during task and rest across schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy controls. Molecular Biology, (accepted).
Sokolowki, H. M., Fan, C., Yu, J.-C., Daker, R. J., Lyons, I., Zeman, A., Abdi, H., Levine, B. (2025) Visual imagery and STEM occupational attainment: Gender Matters. Individual Differences and Personality, (accepted).
Bagheri, S., Yu, J.-C., Gallucci, J., Tan, V., Oliver, L. D., Dickie, E. W., Foussias, G., Lai, M.-C., Voineskos, A. N., Ameis, S. H., Hawco, C. (2025) Transdiagnostic Neurobiology of Social Cognition and Individual Variability as Measured by Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation in Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, (in press). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.04.004
Lugtmeijer, S., Yu, J.-C., Kong, X., Mansour, S., Wang, Q., Karvelis, P., Heinsfeld, A. S., Yang, Y.-F., Kim, H. J., Moia S., Zhang, W., Ibrahim, N. S. N., Bayrak, R. G., Vieira B. H., Suppiah, S., Lee, Y.-J., Muhlert, N. (2025). Proceedings of the OHBM Open Science Room 2024. Aperture Neuro, 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.52294/001c.142427
Yu, J.-C., Borgne, J. L., Krishnan, A., Gloaguen, A., Yang, C.-T., Rabin, L. A., Abdi, H., Guillemot, V. (2025) Sparse factor analysis for categorical data with the group-sparse generalized singular value decomposition. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 108179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2025.108179 
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Rashidi, A.G., Oliver, L.D., Pan, R., Moxon-Emre, I., Hawco, C., Dickie, E.W., Secara, M.T., Yu, J.-C., Foussias, G., Szatmari, P., Desarkar, P., Buchanan, R.W., Malhotra, A.K., Lai, M-C., Voineskos, A.N., Ameis, S.H. (2025) Comparative Analysis of Social Cognitive and Neurocognitive Performance Across Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, sbaf005. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaf005.
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, 4. https://doi.org/10.52294/001c.124518.
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, S2451-9022(24)00268-4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.09.001.
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, 2, 1-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00234.
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., G�mez-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
Instructor, Partial Least Squares Correlation and Other Multivariate Methods for Neuroimaging, the 2026 Brainhack school May 2026
Tutorial Instructor, Partial Least Squares Correlation Workshop, Methods Club, The Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest November 2025
Tutorial Instructor, the 2025 Taiwan Open Brain Science Workshop June 2025
Instructor, Partial Least Squares Correlation Tutorial, the 2025 Brainhack school May 2025
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)
Awards and Honors
International Trainee Prize, the Neuro - Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes, the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (2025) ($10,000 CAD)
Early Career Academic Excellence Award, the Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (2025) ($1000 USD)
Meeting Scholarship for the Sensometric Society Meeting (2024) ($1600 EUR)
Sallie P. Asche Travel Award for the Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference (DACC) (2023) ($500 USD)
Travel Award for the Society of Mathematical Psychology (SMP) Meeting (2017) ($125 USD)
Top 5 Student Poster for the 10th Annual Reprogramming the Brain to Health Symposium (2016) ($500 USD)
Travel Award for the Society of Mathematical Psychology (SMP) Meeting (2016) ($125 USD)
Travel Award for the Society of Mathematical Psychology (SMP) Meeting (2015) ($125 USD)
Travel Award for the Society of Mathematical Psychology (SMP) Meeting (2014) ($125 USD)
Service and Outreach
Diverity and Inclusivity Liaison, OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group Sep 2025 – present
Member, Open Science Training and Education Working Group, the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, the Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital; MNI) Jan 2025 – present
Guest Editor, Aperture Neuro Special Issue - “Open Datasets: Impact, Infrastructure, and Governance”
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 Jul 2024 – present
Open Science Room Chair, OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group Jul 2024 — Sep 2025
Organizer, Open Brain Science Workshop in Taiwan Jul 2024 — Jun 2025
Hub Organizer, the 2025 Brainhack School Mar 2025 – Jun 2026
Volunteer, the 2025 SoBP Brainhack Mar 2025 – Apr 2025
Co-Organizaer, the 2024 Brainhack Global Toronto Dec 2024
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