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Aaron Boulton

10 Fraser Hall
Email: aboulton@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Todd D. Little

I am a fourth year student in the Quantitative Psychology program. My current research interests in quantitative methods are continuous time models and multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM). Continuous time models circumvent the problem of lag-dependent results inherent in widely-used techniques for longitudinal data analysis. MSEM is the generalization of latent variable or SEM models to multilevel data structures. I also enjoy applying advanced statistical methods to problems in psychology and education. Currently, I am working with an international team of researchers on the evaluation and dissemination of the KiVa program, an anti-bullying intervention developed in Finland.

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Ian Carroll

10 Fraser Hall
Email: ian.carroll@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Carol Woods

I am a first year graduate student in the Quantitative Psychology program. I recently earned a BA in Psychology with a minor in Statistics from the University of Denver. My research interests are categorical data analysis, psychometrics, and meta-analysis. As far as statistical software is concerned, I have experience with SPSS, SAS, JMP, and R.

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Scott Drotar

10 Fraser Hall
Email: sdrotar@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Pascal Deboeck

I am a third year PhD student in the quant program. I am originally from a small town in Indiana. I graduated from Notre Dame with a bachelors degree in mathematics specializing in life sciences in 2009. My primary research interest is in dynamical systems. Dynamical systems is an area that is used to model change in a system over time, and is especially useful in psychology for modeling intra-individual change in longitudinal studies.

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Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal

10 Fraser Hall
Email: mgv@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Todd D. Little and David Johnson

I am a first year graduate student, come from Costa Rica where I got my BA and Lic in Psychology from the University of Costa Rica. My research interests are structural equation modeling, longitudinal data analysis, missing data, developmental psychology, aging, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, cognition and emotion.

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Elizabeth Grandfield

10 Fraser Hall
Email: bethg@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Todd D. Little

I am a first year graduate student in the Quantitative Psychology program. I recently graduated from California State University, Fullerton with an M.A. in psychology. My research interests include structural equation modeling, model evaluation, missing data designs, and longitudinal modeling. I have experience using SPSS, SAS, and Mplus.

 

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Jared Harpole

10 Fraser Hall
Email: jared.harpole@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisor: Carol Woods and Todd D. Little

I am a first year graduate student with a B.S. degree in Business Administration. Prior to graduate school, I spent 7 years working in sales and marketing in the Kansas City area. My current research interests are in categorical data analysis, SEM, kernel density estimation, and missing data. I have experience using SPSS, SAS, LISREL, MPlus, and R.

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Fan Jia

10 Fraser Hall
Email:fanjia@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Todd D. Little and Wei Wu

I became a quantitative psychology graduate student in 2010. After getting a master’s degree in Economics in 2005, I spent 4 years working with commercial data in a consulting company in Beijing. My current research interests include: structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling, bootstrapping, and missing data analysis. I have experience using SPSS, SAS and LISREL, and R.

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Terry Jorgensen

10 Fraser Hall
Email: tdj@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Todd D. Little and Wei Wu

Terry Jorgensen earned his BS in Psychology and MS in Applied Statistics from Kennesaw State University (just north of Atlanta, GA), where he also worked in the KSU Psychology Department as the undergraduate research lab coordinator. His prior research focused on the teaching of psychology. Terry chose to attend KU's doctoral program based on their outstanding reputation in longitudinal data analysis. As a second year student in the KU quantitative psychology program, his research interests include applied missing data analysis and the evaluation of model fit in the context of structural equation modeling. 

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William Kennedy

10 Fraser Hall
Email: wkenne01@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisor: Todd D. Little

With an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies, five years living, working, and studying abroad, and seven years information technology industry experience, I try to bring nontraditional flavors to my role at the CRMDA as I search for that elusive sweet spot between stability and adaptability. My research goals are framed by a desire to understand complex systems science and thus by design I am eager to work expansively across disciplines toward transdisciplinary integration. My current role at the CRMDA is supporting the REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) application while I pursue qualifications in quantitative research methods.‬

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Kyle Lang

10 Fraser Hall
Email: kylelang@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisor: Todd D. Little

I am beginning my third year in the Quantitative Psychology Training Program under the supervision of Todd Little. Before entering the program, I received a bachelor’s in psychology with minors in anthropology and quantitative methods from KU. Since beginning graduate training my primary interest has been missing data analysis and the development of new techniques we can employ to address the missing data problem. Incomplete data is one of the most pervasive problems facing the applied researcher today, and I am working to introduce increasingly less biased and more efficient methods of addressing the problem. I am also interested in dynamical systems modeling of intraindividual change, and in the future I would like to combine my interests in missing data and continuous time models to develop strategies for fitting dynamical systems when the observed data are too sparse to estimate the requisite derivatives. When not pursuing academic interests, my primary hobbies are the practice of kendo and Eishen Ryu Iaido.

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Zachary Langford

10 Fraser Hall
Email: denver9@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisor: David K. Johnson and Todd D. Little

I conduct research in the Neuropsychology and Brain Aging Laboratory. My primary research involves the identification of changes in cognition and brain function associated with Alzheimer's dementia. I am interested in advanced quantitative methods (growth curve modeling, SEM, nonlinear models), computational models, and brain imaging techniques as applied to the study of Alzheimer's dementia and cognition in general.

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Luke McCune

10 Fraser Hall
Email: lukmccun@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisor: Todd D. Little

I am a first-year student in the Quantitative Psychology program. I earned a B.A. in Psychology, with minors in Social and Behavioral Science Methodology and Anthropology, from the University of Kansas in 2011. My primary interests in the field relate to structural equation modeling, categorical data analysis, and missing data issues. My substantive research interests outside of quantitative methods focus on the evolutionary function of individual differences, especially personality.

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Sunthud Pornprasertmanit

10 Fraser Hall
Email: psunthud@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisor: Pascal Deboeck
Website: Sunthud Pornprasertmanit

I am a third-year student in the quantitative psychology program. I am originally from Bangkok, Thailand. My primary research interest is the problem of model evaluation in structural equation modeling.  Now, I am having fun with developing two R packages: simsem and semTools. The simsem package aims to generate data and help researchers to do a simulation study. The semTools package collect many useful tools for running structural equation modeling in R.s

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Leslie Shaw

10 Fraser Hall
Email: leslie.shaw@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisor: Todd D. Little

I am a first year graduate student in the Quantitative Psychology program. My path to this program started with an undergraduate degree in mathematics, followed by work in systems analysis, a masters in agency counseling, and research coordination and data management for a non-profit in Durham, North Carolina. I am interested in program evaluation, missing data, and dynamic systems. Currently I have experience with SAS, SPSS, and Microsoft Access databases.

 

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Stephen Short

10 Fraser Hall
Email: sdshort@ku.edu
Phone: 785-864-9118
Advisors: Todd D. Little

I am a fourth year quantitative student working under the directions of Todd D. Little, PhD. and Patricia H. Hawley, PhD. My primary research interests include instrument development and validation, and the advancement, refinement and application of structural equation modeling (SEM), factor analysis, longitudinal modeling, and meta-analysis. Currently, I am examining the use of SEM for testing interactions in experimental designs. My main applied research area with Dr. Hawley involves examining longitudinal change in attitudes toward and knowledge of evolution in college samples using the previously validated Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS; Hawley, Short, McCune, Osman, & Little, 2011). Using the EALS, I am also beginning to examine regional differences across the U.S. with GIS techniques. Finally, I have a strong interest in teaching and advancing statistics/methods education in the social sciences.