Dr. Shirley Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where she directs the Computational Clinical Science Lab. Dr. Wang received her B.A. from The College of New Jersey (2017), her Ph.D. from Harvard University (2024), and completed her predoctoral internship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2024).
Dr. Wang’s research aims to develop and harness methods that can capture and model the immense complexity of psychopathology, with a focus on suicide, nonsuicidal self-injury, and eating disorders. Her work integrates methods from across the clinical and computational sciences, including machine learning, mathematical modeling, digital phenotyping (e.g., smartphones and wearable biosensors). This work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, several private foundations, and published in over 60 scientific papers and book chapters. Dr. Wang’s research and mentorship has also been recognized through the receipt of several awards, and she was recently listed as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Healthcare.