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Rate My Professor Bo Cao

University of Alberta

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4.08/20/2025

Inspires a passion for knowledge and growth.

5.04/30/2025

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Bo Cao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry within the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, holding the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Computational Psychiatry. He possesses a BSc in mathematics, an MSc in psychology, a PhD in computational neuroscience, and postdoctoral training in neuroimaging and psychiatry. As co-director of the Computational Psychiatry research group, Cao directs a multidisciplinary team that applies advanced machine learning, data science, and data mining techniques to enhance psychiatric diagnosis, prognosis, and personalized treatment. His research specializes in computational psychiatry and precision medicine for mental health, utilizing multimodal data such as electronic health records, brain imaging, genetics, biological markers, behavioral assessments, cognitive tests, and clinical measurements to identify objective biomarkers for disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, ADHD, opioid use disorder, and anxiety. Additional interests encompass brain development and aging across the lifespan, examining how lifestyle, environmental, social, cognitive, and genetic factors influence mental and physical health interactions during aging, as well as neuromodulation and neurofeedback applications.

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