Xin Yu, Ph.D.

Xin Yu received her Ph.D. in Population, Health, and Place (PHP) program at the Spatial Science Institute (SSI), University of Southern California (USC). She received her bachelor’s degree in Spatial Informatics at Wuhan University, China, and M.S in Spatial Data Science at USC.

Throughout her Ph.D. studies, Xin’s research mainly focused on environmental epidemiology, with an emphasis on the susceptibility of air pollution-associated autism risk in early childhood. She is interested using various statistical and causal inference models (Cox regression models, G-computation causal inference, multilevel regression, etc.) to examine...

Ph.D., Population, Health and Place, University of Southern California
M.S., Spatial Data Science, University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering, Spatial informatics & Digitalized Technology, Wuhan University, China

 Yu, X., Rahman, M. M., Carter, S. A., Lin, J. C., Chow, T., … & Hackman A. Daniel (2023). Neighborhood Disadvantage and Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Population with Health Insurance. JAMA Psychiatry. (Under review)

Yu, X., Rahman, M. M., Carter, S. A., Lin, J. C., Zhuang, Z., Chow, T., … & Xiang, A. H. (2023). Prenatal Air Pollution, Maternal Immune Activation, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Environment International, 108148.

Yu, X., Rahman, M. M., Wang, Z., Carter, S. A., Schwartz, J., Chen, Z., … & McConnell,...