TEAM
Shirley Wang, Ph.D.
Lab Director
Shirley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She 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). Shirley’s research aims to develop and harness methods that can capture and model the immense complexity of psychopathology, including mathematical, computational, and intensive longitudinal methods. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and published in over 50 scientific papers and book chapters. Shirley’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.
Gabrielle Reimann, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Gabrielle is a Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Postdoctoral Fellow in the CCS Lab. Her research utilizes computational tools aimed at identifying biomarkers to support mental health diagnosis and clinical decision-making. In 2026, she received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Vanderbilt University where she studied machine and deep learning methods to capture comorbidity, transdiagnostic symptoms, and other sources of psychiatric complexity at the symptom and neurobiological levels. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her work has been supported by the NSF GRFP, Data Science For All National Fellowship, and NIMH Machine Learning Team Doctoral Internship.
Leily Behbehani, B.S.
PhD Student
Leily received her B.S. in Psychology from Haverford College in 2021. Before joining the CCS lab as a graduate student, Leily worked as a clinical research coordinator in Dr. Sunny Tang's lab where she studied NLP predictors of suicide and severe psychopathology. Leily is interested in using data from real-time monitoring technologies to predict and model suicide and self-injurious behaviors, particularly in minority populations.
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Sharina Hamm, B.Sc.
PhD Student
Shari received her B.Sc. in Psychology from Leiden University in 2021 and is completing her Research M.Sc. at the same institution under the supervision of Dr. Eiko Fried. During her master’s training, she broadened her research experience internationally through an internship with the Rutledge Lab at Yale, where she investigated the computational dynamics of self-esteem in an independent project. She subsequently continued at Yale as a postgraduate research assistant in the ABCD Lab with Dr. Arielle Baskin-Sommers, focusing on the dynamics of impulsivity.
Now in the CCS Lab, Shari’s work centers on specifying and iteratively refining formal theories of psychopathology using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data. Moreover, Shari is particularly interested in how affect translates into action, modeling the computational dynamics of negative urgency and escape behaviors in individuals experiencing suicidal ideation.
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Adanya Johnson, B.S.
PhD Student
Adanya received her B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022. Before joining the CCS Lab, Adanya worked as a clinical research coordinator in Dr. Annie Haynos’ lab, where she studied computational and affective mechanisms in eating disorders. Adanya is interested in how affective, cognitive, and environmental processes function, interact, and shape behavior across multiple timescales and development. She investigates these processes using mathematical, computational, ecological, and neurobiological approaches.
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Frances Grace Hart, B.A.
PhD Student
Grace received her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from Boston College in 2023. Before joining the CCS Lab as lab manager, she completed her Honors Thesis on interpretation bias and death anxiety under the mentorship of Dr. Courtney Beard at McLean Hospital. Grace is broadly interested in what people believe and feel about death and mortality, and how these influence psychological and behavioral outcomes (e.g., death anxiety and suicide). She is also interested in modeling transdiagnostic and basic psychological processes. Some of her metascientific interests include theory formalization and construct validity.
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Campbell Linker, B.A.
Lab Manager
Cam received her B.A. in Psychology and Statistical Data Sciences from Smith College in 2026. During her time as an undergraduate student, she worked in Dr. Stephanie Jarvi Steele’s Behavioral Assessment of Self-Injury Lab. At Smith, Cam’s senior thesis aimed to examine how self-injurious thoughts and behaviors may be maintained by identification with psychopathology (i.e., the extent to which one integrates a diagnosis or behavior into one’s sense of self). Cam is broadly interested in studying the temporal dynamics of SITBs, particularly focusing on individual-level differences in related emotional and cognitive processes. She is also interested in translating her undergraduate data science work to the field of clinical psychology, focusing on how machine learning, mathematical modeling, and other computational techniques can be applied to suicide research.
Nora Dee, B.A.
Lab Manager
Nora received her B.A. in Psychology (with Honors) and a minor in Data Science from Stanford University in 2026. As an undergraduate student, she primarily worked in the Cognitive Tools Lab under the mentorship of Prof. Judy Fan. There, her honors thesis explored how people infer the personality traits of others through conversation. At the same time, she developed her interest in SITBs through her work with Prof. Michele Berk in the School of Medicine, testing the impact of different DBT-based treatment programs for adolescents. In the CCS Lab, Nora is excited to combine her cognitive science background with her growing interest in psychopathology to more precisely understand and predict SITBs.
Coby Barrow
Research Assistant
Coby is a rising junior in Yale College. He is a proud member of Timothy Dwight College and a Computer Science & Psychology major. His interests lie largely in understanding how recent technology advancements interact with mental health treatment, and how an individual’s response to care may be affected by technology. Coby also enjoys photography as a hobby and works as a photographer for Yale’s Handsome Dan as well as various programs on campus.
Yurim Jin
Research Assistant
Yurim is an undergraduate at Yale University, double-majoring in Neuroscience and Applied Mathematics with a certificate in Education Studies. Prior to joining the CCS Lab, she worked in the CAMS Lab at the Yale School of Medicine, where she studied the effects of acute stress on memory and emotion. Yurim is interested in child and adolescent psychology, specifically how culture and upbringing influence the development of anxiety and eating disorders. In the CCS Lab, she aims to utilize novel mathematical models to quantify tipping points in the urge to escape aversive states. Before coming to Yale, she worked as an intern in the Neurology department at Samsung Medical Center, researching spatial awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia (ADD) patients with Dr. Duk-Lyul Na. She was awarded 1st place by the American Psychological Association at the 2023 Regeneron ISEF for developing a novel method to assess spatial abnormalities in ADD patients using the Line Quadrisection Test (available on App Store). Outside of lab, she enjoys playing the piano, taking photos, and trying out new food places.
James Archibald Hamm
Lab mascot
James is Shari’s sweet mini poodle and the lab’s mood-elevating mascot. His work involves expelling his zoomies and bringing smiles to all who see him. When he is off duty, he loves running; chasing tennis balls; and playing with his many toys.
Collaborators
We’re lucky to do science with so many wonderful people!
Kathryn Fox, Ph.D., University of Denver
Christine Cha, Ph.D., Yale University
Arman Cohan, Ph.D., Yale University
Jasmin Brooks Stephens, Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Matthew Nock, Ph.D., Harvard University
Annie Haynos, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
Rebecca Fortgang, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Alexander Millner, Ph.D., Harvard University
Ruben Van Genugten, Northeastern University
Donald Robinaugh, Ph.D., Northeastern University
Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Kate Bentley, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Jennifer Thomas, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Kamryn Eddy, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Eiko Fried, Ph.D., Leiden University
Yaniv Yacoby, Ph.D., Wellesley College
Alumni
Thesis Students
Gaeun Gwon Lee (2025 - 2026)
Yuri-Grace Ohashi (2019 - 2021) | website
Sarah Lipson (2019 - 2020)
Sabrina Bell (2019 - 2020)
Melissa Dreier (2017 - 2019) | website
Research Assistants
Nela Chestojanova (2026)
Mariana Ramirez Lemus (2026)
Hannah Owens Pierre (2026)
Brandon Felcher (2025 - 2026)
Jasmine Rossetti (2025)
Veronica Andrade (2025)
Kali Mathura (2025)
Ella Brenes (2025)
Anika Shethia (2024 - 2025)
Ashvin (Ash) Trehan (2024 - 2025)
Praise Adekola (2022 - 2023)
Julia Vitagliano (2022 - 2023)
Krandhasi Kodaiarasu (2022 - 2023)
Chiara Bertarelli (2022)
Imani Weeks (2020 - 2021)
Grace Krantz (2020)
Sunday Hull (2019 - 2020)
Lauren Harnedy (2019 - 2021)
Anne Lheem (2018)
Cristina Nardini (2018)
Claire Pinson (2017 - 2018)
Chase Venables (2017 - 2018)