AI-Powered Psychometric Research & Innovation Lab (APRIL)

AI-Powered Psychometric Research & Innovation lab (april)

Welcome to the AI-Powered Psychometric Research & Innovation Lab (APRIL) at George Mason University!

Our mission is to revolutionize the measurement of personnel assessments. At APRIL, we employ an innovative, multidisciplinary approach, integrating cutting-edge psychological measurement models with advanced machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, and AI techniques. Together, we delve into the complexities of psychometrics, data science, and individual differences, driving forward the field of industrial and organizational psychology with impactful research.

Dr. Philseok Lee (psychology.gmu.edu/people/plee27) is currently interested in admitting a doctoral student. He is particularly interested in candidates committed to pursuing an academic career. If you are passionate about this field, we encourage you to reach out to him at plee27@gmu.edu.

Dr. Lee's lab (Zihao Jia, Mina Son, & Phil Lee) won the FIRST place in the 2024 SIOP Machine Learning Competition!!!

SIOP2024 @ Chicago

Zihao Jia's pre-comps paper has won the James C. Johnson Student Paper Award from 2024 IPAC!! Congrats Zihao!

Mina Son's pre-comps paper has been selected as the BEST paper at the 2025 Academy of Management (AOM) Conference ! Congrats Mina!

Congratulating Dr. Zihao Jia for successfully defending his dissertation, titled "No Data, No Problem: Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models for Psychological Scale Development" Congrats Dr. Jia! - 2025.4.25

Mina Son received the 2025 International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC) Best Student Paper Award for her pre-comps paper, “From Human Raters to AI: Generative Large Language Models as Raters in Test Development and Validation Settings.”

This is great news for my lab—we’ve now received the IPAC Best Student Paper Award two years in a row!

2024: Zihao Jia, George Mason University

2025: Mina Son, George Mason University

Steven Zhou received Chapman Dissertation Award, Network of Leadership Scholars and Academy of Management! Congrats Steven!!

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