Dr. Sarah Yip

Associate Professor

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Biography

Dr. Yip is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and the Director of the Yale Imaging Psychopharmacology (YIP) research group. Her research employs neurocomputational methods to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying addictions and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Yip has received funding from multiple NIH institutes, including NIDA, NIAAA, and NIMH, as well as international funding sources such as the UK’s Medical Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Ongoing NIH-funded projects under her leadership involve large-scale connectivity-based analyses of developmental neuroimaging datasets, focusing on individuals undergoing treatment for opioid-use disorder. Alongside her collaborators, she is leading a $20 million NIH U01 award as part of the IMPACT-MH initiative, aimed at recruiting a transdiagnostic sample of 2,400 individuals for longitudinal phenotyping using a mix of computational and behavioral tasks, along with natural language processing and clinical assessments.

Research Interests

Requirements for Yale University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
GRE General
TOEFL
Listening
Required:25
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Speaking
Required:7.5
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics
Application Checklist
  • Statement of academic purpose
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Application fee ($105)
  • Resume/CV
Specialization Notes

Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.