Taicheng Huang is an Assistant Research Fellow and Master’s Supervisor at the School of Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, and completed postdoctoral training in psychology at Tsinghua University and in clinical medicine and psychiatry at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. His interdisciplinary research spans biomedical engineering, psychology, and clinical medicine. His work focuses on experimental paradigms for mental health research centered on human decision making, methods for integrating multimodal physiological signals, and applications of noninvasive neuromodulation. He has published as first or corresponding author in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, eLife, and Communications Biology, among other journals. He has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Science and Technology Major Project on Brain Science and Brain Inspired Research. He serves on two academic committees and on the editorial boards of BMC Psychiatry, Psychoradiology, and Journal of Integrative Neuroscience.

Depression and addiction; motivation and decision making; psychomotor function; neuromodulation.

2015-2021  PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. Supervisors: Prof. Jia Liu, Yiying Song, and Zonglei Zhen.

2011-2015  Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology, Xidian University.

2023-2026  Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (Postdoctoral Incentive Program). Mentor: Prof. Tifei Yuan.

2021-2023  Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology, Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University (Shuimu Scholar Program). Mentor: Prof. Jia Liu.

Member, Neuro and Psychiatric Imaging Committee, Chinese Society for Cognitive Science.

Member, Brain Computer Collaboration and Neurotechnology Innovation Committee, Shanghai Research Hospital Association.

Editorial Board Member, BMC Psychiatry.

Early Career Editorial Board Member, Psychoradiology.

Early Career Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience.

Guest Editor, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Selected publications

Song, L. Y., Lyu, Z., Xie, J. Y., Zhang, Y., Zhao, D., Chen, A.*, Huang, T.*, & Yuan, T. F.* (2025). Assessing psychomotor disturbances among mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (IF=17.80).

Zhan, G. L.#, Cai, H. T.#, Ren, R. J.#, Ni, H., Qin, J. M., Bao, L., ..., Huang, T.*, & Guo, X. Y.* (2025). Anxiety symptoms as a hub-mediation nexus in suicidal ideation among depressed patients. BMC psychiatry, 25(1), 1081.

Yang, H.#, Teng, J.#, Qian, Y.#, Huang, T.#, Dong, M., Wang, H., ... & Shen, Y. (2025). Cortical hemodynamic abnormalities associated with fine motor deficits in mild cognitive impairment. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 31(7), e70547.

Xie, J. Y.#, Zhang, Y.#, Shen, W.#, Wu, L.#, Yu, Q., Lyu, Z., ... Huang, T.*, Ma H.*, Gao Q.*, Wu H.*, & Yuan, T. F.* (2025). Tracking neural activity patterns during rapid high-altitude transitions. NeuroImage, 311, 121197.

Huang, T., & Liu, J. (2024). A stochastic world model on gravity for stability inference. eLife, 12, RP88953.

Ma, S.#, Huang, T.#, Qu, Y., Chen, X., Zhang, Y., & Zhen, Z. (2022). An fMRI dataset for whole-body somatotopic mapping in humans. Scientific Data, 9(1), 515.

Huang, T., Song, Y., & Liu, J. (2022). Real-world size of objects serves as an axis of object space. Communications biology, 5(1), 749.

Huang, T., Zhen, Z., & Liu, J. (2021). Semantic relatedness emerges in deep convolutional neural networks designed for object recognition. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 15, 625804.

Huang, T., Chen, X., Jiang, J., Zhen, Z., & Liu, J. (2019). A probabilistic atlas of the human motion complex built from large‐scale functional localizer data. Human Brain Mapping, 40(12), 3475-3487.

Principal Investigator. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund (Category C), 82501788. Neural mechanisms and interventions for impulsive decision making in individuals with methamphetamine addiction. January 2026–December 2028. RMB 300,000; ongoing.

Principal Investigator. National Science and Technology Major Project on Brain Science and Brain Inspired Research, 2025ZD217801. Intervention strategies for motivational dysfunction in depression. September 2025–August 2030. RMB 600,000; ongoing.

Key Member. National Key R&D Program of China, Strategic Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation, 2025YFE0215700. Collaborative study of mechanisms of cognitive impairment in depression and precision interventions using novel PET/MRI molecular probes. January 2026–December 2028. RMB 3 million; ongoing.

Key Member. National Major Scientific Research Instrument Development Project, 82527801. Development of a precision spatiotemporal deep brain stimulation system. January 2026–December 2030. RMB 7.78 million; ongoing.

Opportunities for Students and Research Assistants

The laboratory welcomes undergraduate students in Shanghai, particularly second- and third-year students seeking research training, and graduate students interested in joint supervision with their primary supervisor’s consent. Research assistants are recruited on an ongoing basis; applicants with science or engineering backgrounds are especially welcome. Please email your CV to taicheng_huang@sjtu.edu.cn.

Former Student

Jiyu Xie (Class of 2025), jointly supervised master’s student at Wenzhou Medical University. Publications include work in NeuroImage and Psychoradiology. Subsequently entered a doctoral program at Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University.