Faculty
Psychology Track
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James Curley
Professor
BSDS Co-Director
Education: Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Interests: Social Dynamics, Social Neuroscience, Dominance Hierarchies, R Programming
Courses Taught:
- PSY317L Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
- PSY120R R Programming for the Behavioral Sciences
- PSY341K Social Network Analysis for Psychologists
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Larry Cormack
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Interests: Visual System; Natural Scene Statistics; Data Analysis and Visualization
Courses Taught:
- PSY371E Foundations of Data Science I
- PSY371F Foundations of Data Science II
- PSY341K Computer Simulations
- PSY420M Psychological Methods and Statistics
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Kaya de Barbaro
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of California San Diego
Interests: Social interactions, Development, Dynamical systems theory, Mobile sensing, Machine learning, Mental health
Courses Taught:
- PSY341K Applied Human Signal Analysis
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Desmond Ong
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Affective Cognition, Empathy, Emotion Understanding, Cognitive Models, Probabilistic (Bayesian) Modelling, Artificial Intelligence (NLP and Large Language Models); AI Ethics
Courses Taught:
- PSY371T Text Analysis for Behavioral Data Science
- PSY371Q Ethics in Behavioral Data Science
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Franco Pestilli
Professor
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Interests: Data science, Informatics, Cloud platforms, Brain anatomy, White matter, Computational modelling, Vision science, Attention, Motivation, Learning, Aging.
Courses Taught:
- PSY371E Foundations of Data Science I
- PSY371F Foundations of Data Science II
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Chen Yu
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Rochester
Interests: Development and Learning, Language Acquisition, Perception and Action, Visual Attention, Social Interaction, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Courses Taught:
- 371M Introduction to Machine Learning
- 371N Natural Behavior in the Real World
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Alex Etz
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Interests: Statistics, Bayesian analysis, Reproducibility, Research methodology, Psycholinguistics, Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology.
Courses Taught:
- 371S Bayesian Data Analysis
- PSY317L Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
- PSY120R R Programming for the Behavioral Sciences
- PSY420M Psychological Methods and Statistics
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Adela Timmons
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Interests: Child and family mental health, Adversity and trauma, Coregulation, Artificial intelligence, Pervasive computing, Mobile sensing, Software development
Courses Taught:
- 371P Applied Data Science
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Nicholas Duran
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Memphis
Interests: Dynamic interplay between cognition, language and action, Real-world tasks, Computational tool development
Courses Taught:
- PSY371E Foundations of Data Science I
- PSY371F Foundations of Data Science II
Humanities Track
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Casey Boyle
Associate Professor
BSDS Co-Director
Education: Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Interests: Digital Humanities, Media Studies, AI & Reading/Writing, Accessibility, Rhetorical Theory, Aesthetics
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Thorsten Ries
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., Hamburg University (Germany), Ghent University (Belgium).
Interests: Digital Humanities; Digital Learning; German Literature from the 18th to the 21st Century; Theory, Methodology and Practice of Scholarly Editing, Genetic Criticism and Textual Criticism, Digital Literature, Digital History, Literary Theory, Methodology and Discipline History of the Germanistik.
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Tanya Clement
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland
Interests: Archives, Digital Humanities, American Literary Modernism, Textual Studies, Sound Studies, Scholarly Information Infrastructure, Humanities Data Curation
Courses Taught:
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Lars Hinrichs
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Freiburg
Interests: Sociolinguistics; Corpus linguistics, Contact linguistics; Pidgins and Creoles; Computer-mediated communication, Texas English, Urban contact dialects, Standardization and prescriptivism.
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