Dr. Jiayi Xu is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry. She received her bachelor degrees in Nutrition from Cornell University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014, and her PhD in Human Nutrition with minors in Genomics and Epidemiology from Cornell University in 2019. Her current research focuses on neuropsychiatric disorders, in particular eating disorders and its relevant genetic, microbial, anthropometric and dietary factors.