Jackie received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2015. She is the director of the research lab.
Qi is a PhD candidate. She is working on her dissertation, which is about cross-lagged modeling with categorical indicators.
Adnan joined the lab in 2026. He is co-advised by Dr. Qian Zhang and Dr. Yanyun Yang.
Halle joined the lab in 2026. She is interested in measurement issues in causal inference and longitudinal studies.
Oscar joined the lab in 2026.
Jie Xu (graduated 2019; co-advised with Dr. Yanyun Yang). Dissertation: Impact of Violations of Measurement Invariance in Longitudinal Mediation Modeling.
Abdullah Alsayar (graduated 2021). Dissertation: The Practical Ramifications of Local Item Dependence in Educational Assessment: A Comparison of Four Approaches.
Wenyi Li (graduated 2025). Dissertation: Comparing Tree-Based Methods and Logistic Regression For Propensity Score Estimation in Casual Inference: Cautions and Recommendations