Xiao Yang

Xiao Yang is a researcher at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University whose work applies Boolean network methods and dynamical systems approaches to the study of human behavior and social processes. Yang's research examines how group dynamics, social influence, and emotion regulation unfold over time, with work extending into the analysis of smartphone interaction data and screenomics as a framework for capturing individuals' digital lives. Publications include studies linking smartphone usage patterns to depressive symptoms and adolescent emotion system dynamics, as well as methodological contributions to modeling and controlling multivariate nonlinear systems.