PI

Siwei Liu is an Associate Professor of Human Development and an affiliated faculty of Quantitative Psychology at UC Davis. She received her B.Sc. degree in Psychology from Fudan University in China, and her master degree in Applied Statistics and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. She conducts research on statistical methods for analyzing intensive longitudinal data, in particular in the frameworks of multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, time series analysis, and functional data analysis. Email: sweliu@ucdavis.edu
Graduate Student

Jody Zhou is a Human Development PhD student in the Intensive Longitudinal Methods Lab. She received her B.Sc. in Cognitive Science with a minor in Statistics from UC Davis. She is interested in statistical models for analyzing longitudinal data of human behavior, mental, and brain processes. She hopes to develop quantitative methods that can explore questions at the individual level.
Email: jodzhou@ucdavis.edu
Email: jodzhou@ucdavis.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar

Sebastian Castro-Alvarez is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Human Development. He did his undergraduate studies in psychology at the National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) in Bogotá, Colombia. After this, he graduated with a research master’s in behavioral and social sciences at the university of Groningen in the Netherlands and received his Ph.D. from the same university. His research interests are in the field of psychometrics and its applications to intensive longitudinal data. More specifically, he wants to understand and create awareness on how to account for measurement error in intensive longitudinal data in psychology by means of using dynamic factor analysis, SEM, and IRT approaches, which are suitable to analyze time series. Email: secastroal@ucdavis.edu
Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholar
Bonnie Dixon (Researcher at Ronin Institute)
Bonnie Dixon (Researcher at Ronin Institute)