UIUC Quant Brownbag


Past Schedules
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
2024-12-11 Matti Vuorre Tilburg University Communicating causal effect heterogeneity
2024-12-04 Luke Sztajnkrycer University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Investigating consequential inconsistency in dynamic decision making
2024-11-13 Henrik Singmann University College London When you should and shouldn’t use mixed models and/or Bayes factors
2024-11-06 Megan Peters University of California, Irvine Introspective psychophysics and the quantitative study of subjective experience
2024-10-30 Víthor Rosa Franco Universidade São Francisco Revealing deep psychological insights and scientific laws through Representational Measurement Theory
2024-10-23 Joseph Houpt University of Texas at San Antonio Human and AI melanoma detection
2024-10-16 Peter Kvam The Ohio State University Machine learning tools for model fitting, comparison, and discovery
2024-10-09 Jaime Lane Derringer University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign What is gender?
2024-10-02 Stefano Noventa Universität Tübingen Toward a unified perspective on assessment models
2024-09-25 Adele Diederich Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Testing a dynamic dual-process model of inter-temporal choice: Serial and quasi-parallel processing
2024-09-11 Babak Hemmatian University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Thinking with a community at multiple levels of analysis
2024-08-28 Zygmunt Pizlo University of California, Irvine The concept of symmetry and the theory of problem solving
2024-05-01 Trung Le & Qidi Man UIUC First year projects
2024-04-24 Hyunjoo Kim UIUC The Two-Step Q-matrix Estimation Method
2024-04-17 Michael Rizzo UIUC A longitudinal investigation of U.S. children's developing racial biases
2024-04-10 Jake Hinman UIUC Representations of space in the brain
2024-04-03 Haylee Min UIUC Applying ML/AI to move forward organizational research and practices
2024-03-27 Steven Culpepper UIUC Bayesian Multilevel Models: Priors to Avoid Overfitting
2024-03-20 Jinming Zhang & Cary Lin UIUC Extending Tukey’s Test to Detecting Three-way Interaction in Two-Facet G-Theory Designs and its application
2024-03-06 Susu Zhang UIUC Exploring the NAEP Math Achievement Gap: Insights from Test-Taking Process Data
2024-02-14 Jon Willits UIUC Trying to quantify task specific activation of different kinds of information
2024-02-07 Jennifer Cromley UIUC
2024-01-31 Kimbery Rios UIUC Understanding academics' perceptions of identity-related research: The role of intellectual humility
2023-12-06 Tasha Holden UIUC The Roles of Working Memory, Stereotype Threat, and Academic Attitudes in Student Learning and Achievement
2023-11-29 Benedek Kurdi UIUC Are implicit evaluations purely model-free? Lessons from an adversarial collaboration
2023-11-15 Cagri Haksoz UIUC Less can be more: How to make operations more flexible and robust with fewer resources
2023-11-08 Janina Hoffman U of Bath Cognitive limitations in decision making
2023-10-25 Jessie Chin UIUC Search as a process in self-regulated learning
2023-10-18 Mark Himmelstein Fordham Measuring Persuasion Without Measuring a Prior Belief: A New Application of Planned Missing Data Techniques
2023-10-11 Sepideh Sadaghiani UIUC The functional brain connectome across slow and fast timescales of neural connectivity
2023-10-04 Shiyu Wang U of Georgia Exploring Cognitive Process and Attributes through Multimodal Data Analysis
2023-09-27 Justin Leiby UIUC The Motivational Effects of Delaying Compensation for People on University versus Vocational Educational Tracks
2023-09-13 Michelle Byrne Monash U Modelling puberty in adolescent girls and LGBTQIA+ youth
2023-08-30 Jessica Montag UIUC Language: Only the fun stuff
2023-04-26 Kota Saito Cal Tech Axiomatization of Random Utility Model with Unobservable Alternatives
2023-04-19 Hyunjoo Kim and Sunbeom Kwon UIUC Identifiability of Estimated Q-Matrices for the DINA Model: Implications for Estimation Algorithms
2023-04-12 Brett Jefferson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Model Fit Using Sheaves . . . and some stuff about NAM and PNNL
2023-04-05 Carla Hunter UIUC Racial Trauma and Facilitating Healing in Black Communities
2023-03-22 Frieder Koehn UIUC Nonparametric Methods in Cognitively Diagnostic Assessments
2023-03-08 Emily Neu Line and Meichai Chen UIUC Testing (Non-)Bayesian Persuasion in Experiments
2023-03-01 Melih Bastopcu UIUC Experimental Design to Test Spite and Probability Bias in Bayesian Persuasion
2023-02-15 Clintin Davis-Stober Missouri Better Accuracy for Better Science...Through Random Conclusions
2023-02-06 Jonas Ludwig Tel Aviv University Supplementing Experimental Data Analytics with Order-Constrained Inference
2023-01-30 Marc Jekel University of Cologne Formalizing and Evaluating Verbal Hypotheses about a Collection of Proportions 
2022-11-30 Leo Alexander III UIUC LER/IO Psych Making Decisions about Adverse Impact: The Influence of Individual and Situational Differences
2022-11-16 Shaowei Ke University of Michigan Learning from a Black Box
2022-11-09 Ross Jacobucci University of Notre Dame Flexible Specification of Large Structural Equation Models with Regularization
2022-11-02 Jinnie Shin University of Florida AI in Education and Computational Psychometric
2022-10-26 Victoria Quirk UIUC - QUERIES IRTree Selection Validity in Presence of Extreme Response Styles
2022-10-19 Mancy Liao Duolingo What Do Psychometricians Do in an Educational Tech Company?
2022-10-12 Bo Zhang UIUC - LER/IO Psych One size does not fit all: Unraveling item response process heterogeneity using the Mixed Dominance-Unfolding Model (MixDUM)
2022-10-05 Shiyu Wang University of Georgia Bayesian Estimation of Attribute Hierarchy for Cognitive Diagnosis Models
2022-09-28 Auburn Jimenez UIUC - Quant Psych An unconstrained diagnostic model framework for ordinal data using a Polya-gamma data augmentation strategy
2022-09-21 Joye Xin Qiao Southern Methodist University Diagnostic Classification Analysis of Problem-solving Competence Using Process Data: An Item Expansion Method
2022-09-07 Maximilian Maier University College London robust Bayesian metaanalysis and its application to the reanalysis of the nudge effect
2022-08-31 Nigel Bosch UIUC - iSchool/Ed Psych Explainability and Causality in Machine Learning for Measurement and Intervention