Yao (Mike) Xiao
Yao (Mike) Xiao is a product designer for MindLogger™ within the Center for Product Development at the Child Mind Institute. Mike graduated from Emory University with a bachelor’s degree in quantitative science and a concentration in neuroscience.
Mike began his tenure at the Child Mind Institute conducting neuroimaging data processing and analysis for the Healthy Brain Network. Previously, Mike was a post-baccalaureate research fellow for Dr. Kathleen Merikangas at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). His work there focused on visualization, analysis, and statistical methodology for ecological momentary assessment data and actigraphy. Mike has extensive experience with R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, as well as Shiny app development.
In his current role as a product designer for MindLogger™, Mike taps into his understanding of and compassion for end users of the platform to build interfaces that are not only usable but engaging. He continues to work on actigraphy data as well as mobile self-assessment data collected from the MindLogger™ platform. Mike is passionate about mental health, mobile technologies, and developing better tools for understanding data and communicating results for both researchers and the public.
Education
- BS, Quantitative Science, Emory University.
