Lab News
2023
April
- Winnie presented a paper titled “Addressing Uncertainty in Power Analysis for Designing Cluster Randomized Trials” at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
- Yichi presented a paper titled “Investigating Measurement Invariance in NAEP Student Questionnaire Index Items” at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
- Yichi presented a poster titled “An empirical Bayes cluster-mean approach to correct for sampling error in between-cluster effects” at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
- Winnie received the Excellence in Scientific Writing in the Psychology Department at USC.
- Jimmy presented his project titled “A Systematic Review of Measurement Invariance Research of the CES-D across Gender” at the poster party.
February
- Mark has a co-authored article titled “The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Therapy Utilization Among Racially/Ethnically and Socio-Economically Diverse Autistic Children,” in press in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. The first author is Cassie Gonzalez who is a graduate researcher at USC, and she applies multilevel modeling in this work.
2022
November
- Winnie and Yichi passed their qualifying exams and defended their dissertation proposals. Congratulations to Winnie and Yichi!
September
- Mark is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Scientist Award and starts the funded project in September. Congratulations to Mark!
- Meltem presented a poster titled “Evaluating the Effectiveness and Equity of Court Interventions to Reduce Involvement with the Criminal Justice System” at the Learning & Doing Data for Good (LDDG) Conference at the University of Washington.
June to August
- Meltem was selected as a Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Fellow and completed the 3-month full-time DSSG fellowship at Carnegie Mellon which aims to “train aspiring data scientists to work on machine learning, data science, and AI projects with social impact in a fair and equitable manner.”
June
- Yichi did a summer internship at American Institutes for Research.
2021
July
- We welcomed our fourth graduate student Meltem Ozcan to the lab.
- Mark authored article titled “Adjusting for Measurement Noninvariance with Alignment in Growth Modeling” in journal Multivariate Behavioral Research.
2020
August
- We welcomed our third graduate student Jimmy Zhang to the lab.
July
- Winnie and Yichi presented posters at the International Meeting of Psychometric Society (IMPS) online.
2019
August
- MMM lab established.
- We welcomed our first two graduate students Winnie Tse and Yichi Zhang to the lab.