Katie Byrd

Email:  ksippel@usc.edu
Advisor: Richard John
Research Interests: Judgement and decision making, risk perception, and fake news related to extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist events, and pandemics; Improving research literacy related to health information through podcast based interventions

Kevin Kapadia

Email: kevinkap@usc.edu
Advisor: Richard John
Research Interests: Risk analysis, Decision analysis, Protecting soft targets, Behavioral measures of risk taking

Sean Lee

Email: hanbyull@usc.edu
Advisor: Rand Wilcox
Research Interests: Robust measures, nonparametric methods

Meltem Ozcan

Email: ozcan@usc.edu
Advisor: Hok Chio (Mark) Lai
Research Interests: Psychometrics, measurement invariance, Bayesian statistics, multilevel modeling, machine learning, NLP

Winnie Wing-Yee Tse

Email:  wingyeet@usc.edu
Advisor: Hok Chio (Mark) Lai
Research Interests: Multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, sample size planning for multilevel studies, measurement invariance for scales with order-categorical indicators, multilevel regression and poststratification for natural language processing research

Lai Xu

Email: laixu@usc.edu
Advisor: Rand Wilcox
Research Interests: Robust Statistical Methods, particularly in comparing groups, contamination bias

Gengrui (Jimmy) Zhang

Email: gengruiz@usc.edu
Advisor: Hok Choi (Mark) Lai
Research Interests: Structural equation modeling, measurement invariance, meta-analysis

Yichi Zhang

Email: yzhang97@usc.edu
Advisor: Hok Chio (Mark) Lai, Rand Wilcox
Research Interests: Measurement invariance, multilevel modeling, equivalence testing, robust methods