CV

Education

• 2018-2021, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Piia Astikainen, Prof. Jarmo Hämäläinen.
• 2015-2018, Master of Education (Basic Psychology), Liaoning Normal University, China. Supervisor: Prof. Wenbo Luo.
• 2011-2015, Bachelor of Science (Applied Psychology), Dalian Medical University, China. Supervisor: Dr. Guoqing Xu.

Language skills

Chinese (native), English (fluent), Finnish (basic)

Work experience

• 2023-present, Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, United States.
• 2021-present, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland.
• 2018-2021, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 2018-2019, Research Assistant, Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 2016-2018, Visiting Researcher, Active Mind Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 2015-2016, Research Assistant, Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, China
• 2013-2014, Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Dalian Medical University
• 2015, Psychiatric Interns, Dalian Seventh People’s Hospital & Dalian Mental Health Center
• 2015, Psychologist Assistant, Dalian Airforce Sanatorium

Current research projects

• 2021-2026: Project Manager and key member in the Emotion AI project led by Prof. Guoying Zhao. The project is funded by Academy of Finland. My main duties are project coordinating, study design, data collection and analyses, paper writing, student supervising and guiding.
• 2023-2025: Co-PI and project manager in the FARIA (The Finnish-American Research & Innovation Accelerator) project: AI-assisted sundown syndrome detection in the Arctic region project led by Prof. Guoying Zhao. The project is funded by Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland. My main duties are project coordinating, proposal writing, study design, data collection and analyses, paper writing, student supervising and guiding.
• 2020-2023, Sub-investigator and core member in the Neural basis of the two-phase resource allocation model of visual working memory and its application project led by Docent Chaoxiong Ye. The project is funded by Academy of Finland. My main duties are study design, data collection and analyses, paper writing and reporting.

Teaching

• 2022-2023, Lecturer, 521285S, Affective Computing (5 ECTS), University of Oulu, Finland
• 2021-present, Follow-up group member of doctoral student, University of Oulu, Finland
• 2019-2021, co-Supervisor, PSYS2101, Master’s thesis related project work (Pro gradu -tutkielman projektityöt), Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 2019-2021, co-Supervisor, PSYS2102, Master’s thesis ending seminar (Pro gradu -tutkielman loppuseminaari), Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 2018-2019, co-Supervisor, PSYA210, Bachelor’s Thesis (Kurssin tietojen hallinta), Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Academic service

• Guest associate editor: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journals and conferences: Frontiers in Psychology, BMC Psychology, Developmental Psychobiology, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• Member in Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Vision Sciences Society, Society for Neuroscience, Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society

Conferences & Communications

• 2023, Poster presentation on “Neuroscience 2023”, Society for Neuroscience, Washington. DC, United States
• 2022, Poster presentation on “Vision Sciences Society Annual meeting 2022”, Vision Science Society, Florida, United States (virtual)
• 2021, Oral presentation on “MEG Nord 2021” Institute of Cogntitive Neuroscience, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (virtual)
• 2021, Poster presentation on “8th Mind Brain Body Symposium 2021”, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, German (virtual)
• 2019, Poster presentation on “Emotion Conference 2019: 7th international conference on emotions well-being, and health”, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherland
• 2019, Poster presentation on “MEG Nord 2019”, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

Research skills

• E-prime\Visual Basic - Psychopy\Python
• Brain Vision Analyzer - EEG lab\Matlab - Brainstorm\Matlab
• Driving license of MEG measurement
• Experienced in Behavioral, EEG, and MEG measurement

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1. Xu Q., Liu, Q., & Ye, C. (2023) Editorial: Cognitive mechanisms of visual attention, working memory, emotion, and their interactions. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17:1259002.
2. Xu, Q., Ye, C., Li, X., Zhao, G., & Astikainen, P. (2023). Pain modulates early sensory brain responses to task-irrelevant emotional faces.. European Journal of Pain. 27(6), 666-681.
3. Xu, Q. (2021). Change detection in the surrounding world: evidence from visual and somatosensory brain responses. (JYU Dissertations, 415, Doctoral dissertation, University of Jyväskylä).
4. Xu, Q., Ye, C., Hämäläinen, J.A., Ruohonen, E.M., Li, X., & Astikainen, P. (2021). Magnetoencephalography responses to unpredictable and predictable rare somatosensory stimuli in healthy adult humans. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15, 641273.
5. Xu, Q., Ye, C., Gu, S., Hu, Z., Yi, L., Li, X., Huang, L., & Liu, Q. (2021). Negative and positive bias for emotional faces: Evidence from the attention and working memory paradigms. Neural Plasticity, 2021, 8851066.
6. Xu, Q., He, W., Ye, C., & Luo, W. (2019). Attentional bias of emotional faces: anger and happy superiority effect. Acta Physiologica Sinica, 71 (1), 86-94.
7. Xu, Q., Ruohonen, E. M., Ye, C., Li, X., Kreegipuu, K., Stefanics, G., Luo, W., & Astikainen, P. (2018). Automatic processing of changes in facial emotions in dysphoria: A magnetoencephalography study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 12:186.
8. Li, X., Vuoriainen, E., Xu, Q., & Astikainen, P. (2023). The effect of sad mood on early sensory event-related potentials to task-irrelevant faces. Biological Psychology, 178, 108531.
9. Ye, C., Xu, Q., Li, X., Vuoriainen, E., Liu, Q., & Astikainen, P. (2023). Alterations in working memory maintenance of fearful face distractors in depressed participants: An ERP study. Journal of Vision, 23(1), 10-10.
10. Zhao, G., Li, Y., & Xu, Q. (2022). From Emotion AI to Cognitive AI. International Journal of Network Dynamics and Intelligence, 1(1), 65–72.
11. Li, X., Sun, J., Wang, H., Xu, Q., Zhang, G., & Wang, X. (2022). Dynamic impact of intelligence on verbal-humor processing: Evidence from ERPs and EROs. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 62, 101057.
12. Ye, C., Xu, Q., Liu, X., Astikainen, P., Zhu, Y., Hu, Z., & Liu, Q. (2021). Individual differences in working memory capacity are unrelated to the magnitudes of retrocue benefits. Scientific Reports, 11: 7258.
13. Ye, C., Liang, T., Zhang, Y., Xu, Q., Zhu, Y., & Liu, Q. (2020). The two-stage process in visual working memory consolidation. Scientific Reports, 10:13564.
14. Ye, C., Hu, Z., Liang, T., Zhang, J., Xu, Q., & Liu, Q. (2020). The mechanism of retro-cue effect in visual working memory: Cognitive phase separation. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 52(4), 399-413.
15. Ye, C., Sun, H., Xu, Q., Liang, T., Zhang, Y., & Liu, Q. (2019). Working memory capacity affects trade-off between quality and quantity only when stimulus exposure duration is sufficient: Evidence for the two-phase model. Scientific Reports, 9:8727.
16. Tian, J., Wang, J., Xia, T., Zhao, W., Xu, Q., & He, W. (2018). The influence of spatial frequency content on facial expression processing: An ERP study using rapid serial visual presentation. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-8.
17. Ye, C., Xu, Q., Liu, Q., Cong, F., Saariluoma, P., Ristaniemi, T., & Astikainen, P. (2018). The impact of visual working memory capacity on the filtering efficiency of emotional face distractors. Biological Psychology. 138, 63-72.