YiYuan Tang

Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang is a Professor at Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions and Director of the Health Neuroscience Collaboratory. He is also a Presence Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

• Top 2% Most Cited Scientist
• Author of >360 peer-reviewed articles
• Editorial roles in SCAN, Frontiers in Neuroimaging, PloS One

Research Focus: Health neuroscience integrating neuroimaging, physiological monitoring, and interventional methods to study self-control, emotion regulation, and brain-body interactions. Key projects include NIH-funded studies on polysubstance use reduction and effortless attention control.

Scientific Achievements:

• NIH Cutting-Edge Basic Research Award
• NIH Phased Innovation Award
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Award
• Stanford Presence Fellow

Mentoring: Supervised >70 graduate students/postdocs across psychology, neuroscience, health sciences, and data science. Serves on federal grant panels for NIH, DoD, NASA, and NSF.