CODA Lab

Welcome to CODA Lab!

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We investigate the neurocognitive processes that shape how we experience daily life, and their support and disruption in mental health conditions. We combine neuroimaging, behavioural measures, and phenotypic data in a transdiagnostic framework. We aim to conduct reproducible research and share our tools openly with the community.

CODA Lab is located in Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health on the UBC Point Grey (Vancouver) campus, which sits on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.

Research

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Our research broadly fits into these three areas:

Neurocognitive foundation models

How do we build and evaluate self-supervised models of brain activity, cognition, and day-to-day experience that are both powerful and interpretable, using naturalistic neuroimaging as a pretraining signal?

Multimodal mental health indicators

How do we deploy these models as symptom-first predictors that go beyond diagnostic labels to shed light on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying mental health conditions?

Reproducible clinical data science

Clinical datasets present unique constraints, including limited sample sizes and privacy requirements. How do we evaluate data-intensive models appropriately and build tools that enable open sharing without compromising patient privacy?

People

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The lab starts in May 2026 at UBC. We are hoping to grow this team in the coming years!

Hao-Ting Wang, PhD

Principal investigator website email
Assistant Professor in Data Science.
Keywords: fMRI transdiagnostic phenotyping experience sampling

Mr Penguin

Lab manager
Looking forwards to retiring from the current position and explore the career of a mascot.
Keywords: fish pwhl penguining

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Open positions

We welcome inquiries from prospective graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate researchers interested in joining the lab.

If you are interested in joining, please email us your CV and a cover letter.

Undergraduate Students

We welcome UBC undergraduate students as co-op students, course-based researchers, or volunteers starting Autumn 2026. The minimum commitment is 8 hours per week over a 4-month term.

Graduate Students

We are accepting graduate students through the UBC Graduate Program in Neuroscience starting Autumn 2027. Prospective students are welcome to contact Dr. Wang to discuss potential projects and funding.

Postdoctoral Fellows

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in neuroimaging and brain encoding/decoding. Interested applicants should contact Dr. Wang to discuss funding opportunities.

Our research is supported by

Contact

PI: Hao-Ting Wang
Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
University of British Columbia
2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada

+1 604 822 6317

haoting.wang@ubc.ca

github.com/lab-coda