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Aaron Boulton

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

I am a third-year student in the Quantitative Psychology program. My primary research interest is structural equation modeling (SEM). In particular, I am interested in multilevel SEM, model fit evaluation, model selection, and Bayesian estimation. I am also working with an international team of researchers on the evaluation and dissemination of the KiVa program. KiVa is an innovative anti-bullying intervention developed in Finland that targets the social context in which bullying takes place.

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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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Kim Gibson

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

I followed a roundabout path to become a graduate student in quantitative psychology at KU. I began with a science bachelors in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Next, I spent over a decade in industry, primarily designing, writing, and testing software, as well as managing others who were designing, writing, and testing software. A few other detours were included, of course. With professional and life experience came the realization that my favorite subjects were math and psychology, and that I might enjoy academia - so I took another turn on the path to graduate school. Now I get to pursue fun and useful interests, such as applying open source tools, such as R, to statistical modeling.

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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 David Johnson

I earned my BS in Psychology and MS in Applied Statistics from Kennesaw State University (just north of Atlanta, GA), where I also worked in the KSU Psychology Department as the undergraduate research lab coordinator. My prior research focused on the teaching of psychology. I chose to attend KU's doctoral program based on their outstanding reputation in longitudinal data analysis. As a first-year student in the KU quantitative psychology program, I will begin research into structural equation modeling and fMRI data analysis under Dr. Todd Little and Dr. David Johnson.

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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

I am a second-year student in the quantitative psychology program. I am able to give advice in areas such as ANOVA, multiple regression, multivariate statistics, multilevel modeling, and bootstrapping techniques. The statistical programs that I frequently use are SPSS/PASW, R, LISREL, HLM, and MPLUS. I am beginning to learn SAS. I can further advise with some basic programming in R, Visual Basic, and Java.

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Stephen Short

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

I am a third 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 refinement and application of advanced quantitative methods, such as structural equation modeling (SEM), factor analysis,  longitudinal modeling, and meta-analysis to a variety of fields in psychology. My main applied research area involves examining changes in university students’ attitudes toward and knowledge of evolution measured by the previously validated Evolutionary Attitudes and Literacy Survey (EALS; Hawley, Short, McCune, Osman, & Little, 2011).