Hi there
I am a Ph.D. applicant for admission in Fall 2025. I am interested in using computational modeling and a multi-method approach (neurocognitive tasks, neuroimaging, ecological momentary assessments) to identify transdiagnostic mechanisms of psychopathology, including but not limited to anxiety, mood, eating and related disorders.
I am currently a clinical research coordinator at Translational Research on Eating and Affect (TREAT) Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Kelsey Hagan, coordinating neuroimaging and neurocognitive studies investigating mechanisms of eating disorders. I completed my master’s thesis examining self-referential processing bias in anorexia nervosa with drift-diffusion model under the mentorship of Dr. Lisa Ranzenhofer at Columbia Center for Eating Disorders.
Research Interests
Computational Clinical Science | Translational Neuroscience | Ecological Momentary Assessments | Transdiagnostic Mechanisms of Anxiety, Mood, Eating, and Other Disorders
Other Interests
Food 🍽️ | E175 ✈️ | osu! 🎶
Education
M.A., Clinical Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
HBSc, Specialist in Psychology, Major in IRHR
Innis College, University of Toronto
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Selected Presentations
Lloyd E. C., Muratore A. F., Hu S., Gu S. J., Pines J., Foerde K., Peña-González M., Ehrlich S., Thompson P., Steinglass J. (2024, September) Developing ENIGMA protocols for large-scale analysis of white matter properties in anorexia nervosa. Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS), Spain, Sitges.
Gu, S. J., Aimufua, I., Pagliaccio, D., Shankman, S. A., Steinglass, J., Auerbach, R. P., & Ranzenhofer, L. (2023, June). Self-referential processing biases in patients with anorexia nervosa. International Conference for Eating Disorders (ICED), United States, Washington D.C. [Slides]
Ranzenhofer, L., Trivedi, E., Aimufua, I., Gu, S. J., Steinglass J., Auerbach R. P. (2023, September) Passive sensing Of social processes in adolescents with an eating disorder. Eating Disorders Research Society, United States, Boston.
Tang J. E., Kurylo, D. D., Gu, S. J., Jain, M., Waxman, R., & Gordon, P. (2021, May). Neural correlates of visual perceptual organization (PO) in an EEG oddball paradigm. Association for Psychological Science (APS), United States (Virtual Conference).
Cochrane B.A., Gu, S. J. & Pratt J. (2020, November). Are event files due to a long-term or a short-term memory process? The Psychonomic Society 61st Annual Meeting. (Virtual conference).