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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS & APPOINTMENTS
Dates
Title and Institution
Sep. 2021 – Assistant Professor, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking  
University, CN
Sep. 2021 – Assistant Professor, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking  
University, CN
2012 – 2017 RA and TA, Institute for Mind and Brain, Department of Psychology,  
University of South Carolina, US
2013 Visiting Research Associate, Huaxi MR research Center (HMRRC)
Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University
2010 – 2012 Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State  
University, US
EDUCATION & TRAINING BACKGROUND
Dates
Degree/Position and Institution
Supervisor(s)
2017 – 2021 Postdoc, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Charles A. Nelson
2012 – 2017 Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina John E. Richards
2008 – 2010 BS, General Psychology, East Tennessee State University
Wallace Dixon
2006 – 2008 BS, Applied Psychology, Shandong Normal University, CN
HONORS AND AWARD
Dates
Name of Award
2022
APS Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science
2012 – 2016 Presidential Fellowship, University of South Carolina
2015 – 2016 Student Travel Award, University of South Carolina
2015  Early Career Research Excellence Award, Department of Psychology, University of  
South Carolina
2015  SRCD Student Travel Award

2018 – 2010 Dean’s List, East Tennessee State University

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Peer-reviewed Publications :  
1.  Wang, Y., Shang, S., Xie, W. , Hong, S., Liu, Z., & Su, Y. (2023). The relation between  
aggression and theory of mind in children: A meta - analysis. Developmental science , e13310.
2.  Pirazzoli, L., Sullivan, E., Xie, W. , Richards, J. E., Bulgarelli, C., Lloyd-Fox, S., ... & Nelson  
III, C. A. (2022). Association of psychosocial adversity and social information processing in  
children raised in a low-resource setting: an fNIRS study. Developmental Cognitive  
Neuroscience , 56 , 101125.
3.  Xie, W. , Toll, R. T., & Nelson, C. A. (2022). EEG Functional Connectivity Analysis in the  
Source Space. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience , 101119.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101119
4.  Xie, W. , Bathelt, J. Fasman, A., Nelson, C.A., & Bosquet Enlow, M. (2022). Temperament and
psychopathology: The “community” to which you belong matters. Child Development , 00, 000-000.  
https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13742
5.  Sullivan, E. F., Xie,W. , Conte, S., Richards, J. E., Shama, T., Haque, R., Petri,W. A., & Nelson,  
C. A. (2022). Neural correlates of inhibitory control and associations with cognitive  
outcomes in Bangladeshi children exposed to early adversities. Developmental Science,  
e13245. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13245
6.  Bach, A. M., Xie, W. , Piazzoli, L., Jensen, S. K., Afreen, S., Haque, R., ... & Nelson, C. A.  
(2022). Systemic inflammation during the first year of life is associated with brain functional  
connectivity and future cognitive outcomes. Developmental cognitive neuroscience , 53 , 101041.
7.  Vincent, K. M., Xie, W. , & Nelson, C. A. (2021). Using different methods for calculating  
frontal alpha asymmetry to study its development from infancy to 3 years of age in a large  
longitudinal sample. Developmental Psychobiology , 63 (6), e22163.
8.  Jensen, S. K., Xie, W. , Kumar, S., Haque, R., Petri, W. A., & Nelson III, C. A. (2021).  
Associations of socioeconomic and other environmental factors with early brain  
development in Bangladeshi infants and children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ,  
100981.
9.  Bowman, L. C., McCormick, S. A., Kane - Grade, F., Xie, W. , Bosquet Enlow, M., & Nelson, C.  
A. (2021). Infants’ neural responses to emotional faces are related to maternal  
anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry .
10. Mariscal, M. G., Levin, A. R., Gabard-Durnam, L. J., Xie, W. , Tager-Flusberg, H., & Nelson,  
C. A. (2021). EEG Phase-Amplitude Coupling Strength and Phase Preference: Association  
with Age over the First Three Years after Birth. Eneuro , 8 (3).
11. Xie, W., Leppänen, J. M., Kane-Grade, F. E., & Nelson, C. A. (2021). Converging neural and  
behavioral evidence for a rapid, generalized response to threat-related facial expressions in  
3-year-old children. NeuroImage , 117732. 12. Gao, C., Xie, W. , Green, J. J., Wedell, D. H., Jia, X., Guo, C., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2021).  
Evoked and induced power oscillations linked to audiovisual integration of affect. Biological  
Psychology , 158 , 108006.
13. Lin, S., Zhou, J., Kumar, S., Xie, W. , Jensen, K.G., Haque, R., Nelson, C.A., Petri, W.A., &  
Ma, J. (2020). Group penalized generalized estimating equation for correlated event-related  
potentials and biomarker selection. BMC Medical Research Methodology , 20 (1), 1-11.
14. Conte, S., Richards, J.E., Guy, M., Xie, W. , & Roberts, J.E. (2020). Face-sensitive brain  
responses in the first year of life. NeuroImage , 211, 116602.  
15. Turesky, T., Xie , W., Kumar, S., Sliva, D. D., Gagoski, B., Vaughn, J., ... & Petri Jr, W. A.  
(2020). Relating anthropometric indicators to brain structure in 2-month-old Bangladeshi  
infants growing up in poverty: a pilot study. NeuroImage , 116540.
16. Xie, W. , Jensen, S.K.G., Wade, M., Kumar, S. Westerlund, A., Kakon, S.H., Haque, R., Petri,  
W.A., & Nelson, C.A. (2019). Growth faltering is associated with altered brain functional  
connectivity and cognitive outcomes in urban Bangladeshi children exposed to early  
adversity. BMC Medicine . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1431-5
17. Xie, W. , Kumar, Kakon, S.H., Haque, R., Petri, W.A., & Nelson, C.A. (2019). Chronic  
inflammation is associated with neural responses to faces in Bangladeshi children.
NeuroImage . DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116110.
18. Gao, C, Stefania, C., Richards, J. Xie, W. , & Hanylak, T. (2019). The Neural sources of N170:  
Understanding timing of activation in face-selective areas. Psychophysiology , e13336.
19. Xie, W. , McCormick. S.A., Westerlund, A., Bowman, L.C., & Nelson, C. A. (2019). Neural  
correlates of facial emotion processing in infancy. Developmental Science , e12758, DOI:  
10.1111/desc.12758.
20. Jensen, S.K.G., Kumar, S., Xie, W. , Tofail, F., Haque, R., Petri, W.A., & Nelson, C.A. (2019).
Neural correlates of early adversity among Bangladeshi infants. Scientific Reports, 9:3507,  
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39242-x.
21. Xie, W. , Mallin, B., & Richards, J. E. (2019). Development of brain functional connectivity  
and its relation to infant sustained attention in the first year of life. Developmental Science ,  
e12702. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12703.
22. Xie, W. , Mallin, & Richards, J. E. (2018). Development of infant sustained attention and its  
relation to EEG oscillations: An EEG and cortical source analysis study. Developmental  
Science, e12562 . DOI: 10.1111/desc.12562.
23. Xie, W. , & Richards, J. E. (2017). The relation between infant covert orienting, Sustained  
Attention and Brain Activity. Brain Topography , 30 (2), 198-219.
24. Richards, J. E., Sanchez, C., Phillips-Meek, M., & Xie, W. (2016). A database of age
appropriate average MRI templates. NeuroImage , 124 , 1254-1259.
25. Xie, W. , & Richards, J. E. (2016). Effects of interstimulus intervals on behavioral, heart rate,  
and event - related potential indices of infant engagement and sustained attention.  
Psychophysiology , 53, 1128-1142.
26. Xie, W. , Richards, J. E., Lei, D., Zhu, H., Lee, K., & Gong, Q. (2015). The construction of MRI  
brain/head templates for Chinese children from 7 to 16 years of age. Developmental Cognitive  
Neuroscience , 15 , 94-105.
Last updated October 2023 27. Xie, W ., Richards, J. E., Lei, D., Lee, K., & Gong, Q. (2015). Comparison of the brain  
development trajectory between Chinese and US children and adolescents. Frontiers in  
Systems Neuroscience , 8 , 249.
Book Chapters :
1. Xie, W. & Nelson, C.A. (2021). The state-of-the-art pediatric EEG and MRI-compatible EEG.
In Huang, H. & Roberts, T. (Ed.), Handbook of Paediatric brain imaging: Methods, Modalities and  
Applications. Elsevier, under the imprint of Academic Press: Cambridge, MA.
2. Downes, M., Bathelt, J., & Xie, W . (2023). Electroencephalography in infants and children. In  
Crosson, B., Haaland, K., & King, T. (Ed.), APA Handbook of Neuropsychology, Vol 2. American  
Psychological Association.
3. Xie, W. & Richards, J.E. (2022). Cortical source localization in EEG Frequency Analysis. In  
Bernat, E., Miller M., & Gable, P. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of EEG Frequency Analyses. Oxford  
University Press: New York, NY.
4. Richards, J. E., & Xie, W. (2015). Brains for all the ages: Structural neurodevelopment in  
infants and children from a life-span perspective. In Benson, J. (Ed.), Advances in Child  
Development and Behavior , 48 , 1-52. Elsevier: Philadelphia, PA.
Invited Talks :
1. The Development of Race Perception – the Study of Neural Correlates of Perceiving Inter
group Difference and Intra-group Similarity in Children (June 2023), Invited talk by TCCI –
NeuroChat 2023, China  
2. Introduction to Cortical Source Analysis (March, 2023). Invited talk by FIT’NG virtual  
workshop series on basic and advanced methods in developmental EEG/ERP. Co-speakers:  
Stefania Conte and Russ Toll  
3. The Neural Correlates of Social Attention in Early Development (December 2019). Invited  
talk in the Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.  
4. Development of Social Attention and How It Could be Impacted by Deviations in Early  
Adversity (May 2019). Invited talk in the Saxelab, Department of Brain and Cognitive  
Sciences, MIT.  
5. The Neural Correlates of Social Attention in Early Development (April 2019). Invited talk in  
the Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD .
6. The Study of Infant Sustained Attention with EEG and Functional Connectivity Measures  
(March 2017) . Invited talk in the Nelson Laboratory, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience,  
Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Conference Presentations :
Talks
1. Xie, W . (October 2022). Hazards to early development – The biological embedding of early life  
adversity: Evidence from research on children living in low-income countries . Peking University  
Health Science Conferences on Autism Spectrum Disorder. Beijing, China
2. Xie, W, Mallin, B, & Richards, J.E. (March 2019). Neural correlates of infant sustained attention .  
Paper symposium: Infant sustained attention in early development. Society for Research in  
Child Development. Philadelphia, PA.
Last updated October 2023 3. Xie, W. (July 2018). Development of brain functional connectivity and its relation to infant sustained  
attention. Flash talk: ICIS2028: Imagineering the next 10 years of infant research. International  
Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
4. Richards, J.E., Guy, M., Zieber., N., Xie, W. , & Roberts, J.E. (June 2016). Brain changes in  
response to faces in the first year . International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
5. Xie, W. & Richards, J.E. (March 2015). Scalp locations projected to cortical locations for infant  
NIRS . Society for Research in Child Development. Philadelphia, PA.
6. Lee, K., Ding, X.P, Richards, J.E., Xie, W. , & Fu, G. (October 2014). Neural correlates of own and  
other race recognition in preschoolers: A functional near infrared spectocopy (fNIRS) study . Paper  
presented at the International fNIRS conference, Toronto, CA.
Posters
1. *Vincent, K., Xie, W ., Wade, M., & Nelson, C.A. (March 2019). The effects of parental stress on 3-
year-old children’s baseline EEG alpha activity and internalizing symptoms. Society of Affective  
Science Conference. Boston, MA.
2. Xie, W. , McCormick, S., Westerlund, A., Bowman, L., Cataldo, J., Zhou, A., & Nelson, C.A.  
(July 2018). The development of cortical responses to emotional expressions in the first year of life .  International Congress on Infant Studies. Philadelphia, PA.
3. Xie, W. , Kumar, S., Westerlund, A., Kakon, S.H., Haque, R., Petri., W.A., & Nelson, C.A.  
(May 2018). Stunted growth influences brain functional connectivity in urban Bangladeshi children  exposed to early adversities . FLUX satellite conference. Chapel Hill, NC.
4. Xie, W., & Richards, J.E. (March 2017). The development of infant sustained attention and its  
relation to EEG oscillations: An EEG and source analysis study . Society for Research in Child  
Development. Austin, TX.
5. Xie, W., & Richards, J.E. (May 2016). The Relation between Infant Covert Orienting, Sustained  
Attention and Brain Activity . International Conference on Infant Studies. New Orland, LA.
6. Xie, W., & Richards, J.E. (March 2015). Comparison of brain development trajectory between  
Chinese and US children and Adolescents and the construction of age-specific MRI brain/head  
templates for Chinese children and adolescents . Society for Research in Child Development.  
Philadelphia, PA.
7. Xie, W., & Richards, J.E. (March 2015). Effects of interstimulus intervals on behavioral, heart rate  and event - related potential indices of infant engagement and sustained attention. Society for  Research in Child Development. Philadelphia, PA.  
8. Xie, W., & Richards, J.E. (June 2014). The effects of ISIs on infant sustained attention: An ERPs  
Study . International Conference on Infant Studies. Berlin, Germany .
9. Xie, W., Richards, J.E., Lei, D., Lee, K., & Gong, Q. (March 2013). The Construction of MRI  
templates for Chinese children and adolescents . South East Neuroscience Conference & SNAPSE.  
Columbia, SC.
10. Dixon, W.E., West, A., & Xie, W (June 2012). Effortful control as an information funnel for short
term recall at 21 Months . International Congress on Infants Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota
11. Xie, W ., Ellison J., Polaha, J. (March 2010). Mental health seeking and related stigma of  
international students at ETSU . Appalachian Student Forum. Johnson City, TN .
FUNDING
Grant title: Young Scholars Research Grant, National Natural Science Foundation of China  
Last updated October 2023 Last updated October 2023
Role: PI
Project title: The development of categorization of facial expressions in early childhood and its  
neural mechanisms. [¥ 300,000]
Dates: 01/2023 – 12/2025
Grant title: Research Grant on Psychological Sciences, Xiaomi Foundation (nonprofit), China
Role: PI
Project title: Early risk factors of socioemotional problems in children: A study combining  
neural measures and wearable devices. [¥ 400,000]
Dates: 10/2022 – 10/2024
Grant proposals not funded :  
Grant title: NIH K99/R00: Pathway to Independence Award
Role: PI
Project title: Neural networks of social attention in autism. [$ 1,001,532].
Expected dates: 03/2021 – 03/2026
Grant title: Harvard Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship  
Role: PI
Project title: Neuroimaing measures of brain development and prediction of cognitive outcomes  
in children exposed to early adversities. [$ 186,464]
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Web of Science record ： https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2561576
Editorial boards:
Developmental Science
2022-present
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2022-present
Frontiers in Psychology
2018-present
Ad hoc reviewers for journals :  
Biological Psychology
Brain Sciences
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Child Development
Cerebral Cortex
Cortex
Development Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psychobiology
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Science
eLife
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Gates Open Research
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering
Infancy
Infant Behavior and Development
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Molecular Autism
NeuroImage
NeuroImage: Report  
Neuropsychologia
PLoS Biology
PLoS One
Psychophysiology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (former JACP)
Science Advances
Scientific Reports
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)
Translational Psychiatry
Wellcome Open Research
心理科学
心理学报