At the 2025 IMPS conference in Minneapolis, she received the IMPS Travel Award for her research on computational modeling of symptom dynamics. She also received the Bridge Grant from yrCSS, for her work on identifying key leverage points to facilitate sustained engagement with climate action.
IMPS Travel Award
This award supported Kyuri’s participation in the 2025 IMPS conference in Minneapolis, where she presented her work on computational modeling of symptom dynamics. She developed a mechanistic model simulating how feedback loops within symptom networks can amplify and sustain depressive symptoms. The model captures bistability, tipping points, and hysteresis, offering insight into why certain symptom states persist. She also compared the model outcomes to empirical data, showing that connectivity patterns associated with persistent symptoms in simulations are also prevalent in real-world clinical data. This work contributes to bridging theory-driven simulations with data-driven causal inference to better understand and intervene in depression progression.
Bridge Grant (yrCSS)
This grant supports a collaboration with Dr. Constantino at Stanford University, focused on exploring the complex dynamics of climate-related attitudes, behaviors, and policy support using longitudinal U.S. survey data. The project applies causal discovery and dynamical systems modeling to uncover how individual beliefs, behaviors, and structural factors interact over time. By modeling these evolving interdependencies, they aim to identify key leverage points that could facilitate sustained engagement with climate action across populations and contexts.