Natasha Yamane

About

I am a PhD Candidate studying Personal Health Informatics at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. I am part of the Computational Behavioral Science Lab headed by Dr. Matthew Goodwin.

I was born and raised in New York, where I completed my BA and MA in psychology at Columbia University. While at Columbia, I worked with Dr. Beatrice Beebe at the New York State Psychiatric Institute analyzing dyadic measures of vocal rhythm in mother-infant interactions. I also began working with Dr. Sylvie Goldman at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center on projects related to quantifying motor behaviors in young children, particularly girls, with autism spectrum disorder. Read more about my research projects here.

Research Interests

Papers

  1. Dunn, J., Mishra, V., Shandhi, M. M. H., Jeong, H., Yamane, N., Watanabe, Y., & Goodwin, M. S. (Under review). Building an open-source community to enhance autonomic nervous system signal analysis: DBDP-Autonomic. Preprint available on arXiv: 2403.17165.
  2. Yamane, N., Mishra, V., & Goodwin, M. S. (2024). HeartView: An extensible, open-source, web-based signal quality assessment pipeline for ambulatory cardiovascular data. In D. Salvi, P. Van Gorp, & S. A. Shah (Eds.), Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 107–123). Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-59717-6_8.
  3. Yamane, N., Snow, A., Fein, D., Naigles, L., & Goldman, S. (2022). Brief report: Parent-guided movements during play with children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 94, Article 101968, doi:10.1016/j.rasd/2022.101968.
  4. Ardalan, A., Yamane, N., Rao, A., Montes, J., & Goldman, S. (2021). Analysis of gait synchrony and balance in neurodevelopmental disorders using computer vision techniques. Health Informatics Journal, 27(4), 1–12, doi:10.1177/14604582211055650.
  5. Abbruzzese, L., Yamane, N., Fein, D., Naigles, L., & Goldman, S. (2020). Assessing child postural variability: Development, feasibility, and reliability of a video coding system. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 41(3), 314–325. doi:10.1080/01942638.2020.1833272.
  6. Yamane, N. (2018). Identifying vocal-motor behaviors of joint engagement in children with autism spectrum disorder and their parents (Master’s thesis). doi:10.7916/d8-h9yj-xr57.

Selected Presentations

  1. Yamane, N., Lansberry, H., & Goodwin, M. S. (Under review). An exploratory study of cardiac synchrony and joint engagement in parent-child dyads of autistic and neurotypical children. Submitted to the 2025 INSAR Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
  2. Murali, P., Yamane, N., Hernandez, J., Marsella, S., Goodwin, M., & Bickmore, T. (2024, September). Feeling-the-Beat: Enhancing empathy and engagement during public speaking through heart rate sharing. Talk presented at ACII 2024: 12th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction, Glasgow, Scotland.
  3. Yamane, N., Mishra, V., & Goodwin, M. S. (2023, November). HeartView: An extensible, open-source, web-based signal quality assessment pipeline for ambulatory cardiovascular data. Talk presented at EAI PervasiveHealth 2023: 17th International EAI Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Malmö, Sweden.
  4. Yamane, N., Mishra, V., & Goodwin, M. S. (2023). Developing an open-source web-based data quality assessment pipeline for analysis of ambulatory cardiovascular data in individuals with autism. Technology demo presented at the 2023 INSAR Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
  5. Goldman, S., Martin, M. J., Ehteshami, L., & Yamane, N. (2022, May). Increased feminine gender markers in toddler girls with and without autism. Poster presented at the 2022 INSAR Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, USA.
  6. Ardalan, A., Yamane, N. M., & Goldman, S. (2021, May). A computational approach for analyzing gait synchrony and balance in neurodevelopmental disorders. Poster presented at the 2021 INSAR Virtual Meeting.
  7. Yamane, N. (2020, March 4). Parents’ use of music with children with autism spectrum disorder. Invited talk given for the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  8. Goldman, S., Isler, J., Yamane, N., Wyne, S., Myers, M., & Tottenham, N. (2019, August). An EEG study of speech and music processing in children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY, USA.
  9. Beebe, B., Lee, S. H., DelGaudio, R., Hersch, E., Sherwin, E., Abrahams, L., Carney, S., Davis, A., Malouta, C., Kahya, Y., Raudales, A., Roman, M., Yamane, N., Bowman, A., & Ende, R. (2019, May). Risk and resilience in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants at one year. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC, USA.
  10. Yamane, N. M., McCullough, A. K., & Goldman, S. (2018, April). Identifying vocal-motor behaviors of joint engagement in children with autism spectrum disorder and their parents. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Women in Science at Columbia Graduate Research Symposium at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Teaching


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