1. 国家自然基金面上项目，基于全脑高分辨率磁共振波谱成像技术的强迫症患者神经代谢异常研究，2019.1-2022.12，课题负责人
2. 国家自然基金面上项目，清醒小动物缺血脑卒中早期神经血管耦合多模态光学成像研究，2017.1-2020.12，课题负责人
3. 上海交通大学“医工交叉基金”重点项目，基于rTMS技术对早期精神分裂症患者海马神经新生及其功能网络的调控研究，2018.1-2020.12，课题负责人
4. 上海交通大学“医工交叉基金”项目，痛性糖尿病周围神经病变患者丘脑功能网络连接及其与药物疗效的相关性研究，2019.1-2021.12，课题负责人
5. 上海张江国家自主创新示范区专项发展资金重大项目,2018.1-2020.12, 核心骨干
 

先后获得国家自然科学基金委员会、科技部、教育部、上海市科委和上海交通大学的多项基金支持，并在国外重要学术期刊如《Science》等发表30余篇学术论文，他引600余次。
代表性论文专著1. Xiang Q, Xu J, Wang Y, Chen T, Wang J, Zhuo K, Guo X, Zeljic K, Li W, Sun Y, Wang Z, Li Y*, Liu D*, Modular Functional-Metabolic Coupling Alterations of Frontoparietal Network in Schizophrenia Patients, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Feb 6;13:40.
2. Yongjun Chen, Ziyu Meng, Zongfen Zhang, Yajing Zhu, Rui Gao, Xuan Cao, Ling Tan, Zhen Wang, Haiyin Zhang, Yao Li* and Qing Fan*, The right thalamic glutamate level correlates with functional connectivity with right dorsal anterior cingulate cortex/middle occipital gyrus in unmedicated obsessive–compulsive disorder: A combined fMRI and 1H-MRS study, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2019 Mar; 53(3):207-218. 
3. Bin Bo, Yao Li*, Wanlu Li, Yongting Wang, and Shanbao Tong*, Optogenetic Excitation of Ipsilesional Sensorimotor Neurons is Protective in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Laser Speckle Imaging Study, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2018.2872965.
4. Wang, R., Fan, Q*, Zhang, Z, Chen, Y, Zhu, Y and Li, Y.*, Anterior thalamic radiation structural and metabolic changes in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a combined DTI-MRS study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 277: 39-44, 2018.
5. Zhang, X., Tang, Y., Maletic-Savatic, M., Sheng, J., Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., Zhang, T, Wang, J, Tong, S, Wang, J, Li, Y.*. Altered neuronal spontaneous activity correlates with glutamate concentration in medial prefrontal cortex of major depressed females: an fmri-mrs study. J Affect Disord, 201: 153-161, 2016.