Mariah Vigil is a doctoral student in the School Psychology area within the Department of Educational Psychology, advised by Dr. Jennifer Asmus. At the University of Utah, she double majored in Psychology and Family, Community, Human Development. Mariah currently serves as the School Psychology Training Clinic clinician/teaching assistant. Mariah is also the Diversity and Inclusion Association Co-Chair. Her research interests focus on understanding effective and inclusive sexual/romantic supports for autistic individuals that are gender and/or sexual minorities.
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Wang, Yeyu
Yeyu Wang is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences Area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She is interested in modeling collaborative learning process based on multi-modal data.
Wu, Sally
Xue, Taiming
Taiming Xue is a doctoral student in the School Psychology area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She received her BA in Psychology with Honors from UW-Madison. Broadly, Taiming’s research interests include the development and implementation of school-based mental health interventions to address student’s internalizing concerns, especially through collaboration with families. She is also interested in making interventions more accessible and tailored to students who are culturally and linguistically diverse.
Yavuz, Sinan
Sinan Yavuz is a doctoral student in the Quantitative Methods area within the Department of Educational Psychology. Sinan working with Dr. David Kaplan and his primary interests are in Bayesian approaches for educational research designs, Bayesian growth models in education, Bayesian approaches to missing data analyses, and extensions of Bayesian model averaging to multilevel models.
Yusuf, Temi
Temi Yusuf is a doctoral student in the School Psychology area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She is advised by Dr. Andy Garbacz. Before her graduate studies, she received dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and Secondary Education from the University of Michigan. Temi’s research interests include family-school-community partnerships and developing culturally sensitive adaptations for interventions.
Zhang, Jingru
Jingru Zhang is a doctoral student in the Quantitative Methods area within the Department of Educational Psychology. She is currently working with Dr. Jee-Seon Kim and Dr. Pustejovsky. Her research interests lie in the development of statistical methods that probe into questions in educational research, which serves better evaluation of educational programs and further informs policies and practice. Jingru is currently working as a project assistant at the UW Testing & Evaluation Center in Madison.