Autumn Kujawa, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University and director of the Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab. She earned her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship in the neuroscience of mental health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Kujawa's research aims to reduce the burden of mood disorders on youth and families. In particular, she examines how children and adolescents process and respond to emotion, how alterations in emotional processing contribute to the development of mood disorders, and how this knowledge can be translated to improve interventions. Dr. Kujawa has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, received an Early Career Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and has been awarded research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, and American Psychological Foundation.

Dr. Hengyi Cao is an assistant professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and Zucker Hillside Hospital. He has been conducting neuroimaging research in psychiatry for more than 10 years and has extensive experience in psychiatric neuroimaging and clinical neuroscience. Dr. Cao has published more than 30 first-authored papers in leading journals and has served as a reviewer for more than 40 journals in the field. He has received awards from multiple research societies and foundations, including the Schizophrenia International Research Society, Society of Biological Psychiatry and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.