Welcome!

Hi, this is Mingcong 😊

Currently, I work with Dr. Qimin Liu as a lab manager at the Quantitative Psychopathology Lab in the Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University. Previously, I worked with Dr. Lily Brown at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA), Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. I also worked with Dr. Todd J. Farchione at the TREND UP Lab in CARD.

My research examines (1) how stress exposure and emotion regulation jointly shape depression and anxiety, and (2) how mechanistically informed, person-specific approaches can improve assessment and optimize interventions. Using multimethod approaches across multiple levels of analysis, I focus particularly on temporal dynamics and individual differences. Overall, my work seeks to characterize heterogeneity in affective psychopathology and use that knowledge to inform more precise, individualized models of risk and treatment.