Hello, I'm Junxi Chen

I'm an incoming PhD student in Psychology working with Mark Ho in the Computation & Decision-Making Lab at New York University.

Before NYU, I worked as a research technician with Robb Rutledge at Yale. I received my B.S. degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Mathematics from the University of Southern California, where I worked with Payam Piray.

Research Areas

Computational Cognitive Science

Meta-Learning, Planning

Computational Psychiatry

Subtyping; Subjective Well-Being; Depression, Anxiety

Recent Publications

Categorical Bayes Filtering for Computational Phenotyping in Adaptive Learning

Authors: Junxi Chen, Payam Piray

bioRxiv • 2026