Graduate Student Directory

Alexa is interested in the short- and long-term health impact of the social (e.g., race, gender, class, ethnicity, immigrant generation, etc.) and contextual (e.g., neighborhood, education, household) determinants of physical and mental health.

Liu focuses on determinants and consequences of parenting in infancy and early childhood, particularly how individuals' biobehavioral functioning relates to environmental factors and parenting quality, and how vulnerabilities predict child socio-emotional outcomes.

Hannah is interested in treatment and recovery from substance use disorders for women, especially pregnant and parenting women, the mother-child dyad in the context of treatment and recovery, and the intersection between reproductive health and addiction across the life span.

T is interested in the experiences and mental health of LGBTQ individuals, households with LGBTQ parents, and race and its impact on the child welfare system.

Aarti is interested in how social and environmental stressors (in particular, housing insecurity and climate disasters) can impact various facets and markers of health and well-being (biological, physical, and mental) across the life course.

Jasmin studies the effects of culture, race/ethnicity, and biases on the socioemotional development and disciplinary experiences of students of color.

Avery is focused on peer relationships in childhood and adolescence, specifically the ways peers can shape well-being and positive youth trajectories, as well as understanding peer influence through network analysis.

Lan's research interest focuses on parenting, parent-child interaction, family systems, and adolescent development; namely, how parenting influences adolescent development, especially their mental health, from a family systems perspective.

Shou-Chun Chiang is interested in understanding how day-to-day parent-youth interactions impact adolescent emotions and alcohol use initiation.

Ulziimaa focuses on parenting, parent-child relationships in adversity, and childhood trauma, including studying negative effects of child maltreatment on stage salient tasks and the mechanisms to unravel these negative effects and reclaim a normal developmental trajectory.

Young Won is interested in modeling intensive longitudinal data with approaches that address changes over time, including identifying events or behaviors that improve relationship qualities or reduce relational conflicts.

Marci is interested in child maltreatment and related public policy to prevent it, including child welfare and foster care placement, as well as maternal substance use and the implications for child welfare actions, including reunification following child removal from care.

Casey's research focus includes public policy, families, sexual and gender minority parents, and prevention and intervention.

Jose studies individual differences in creativity and how to support creative ability across the lifespan; sleep and changes in neural activation that lead to cognitive decline; and the use of technology to improve quality of life for those suffering from dementias.

Erik's research interests include policy and applied research as it pertains to young adults with substance use disorders.

Sara is interested in maintaining older adults' driving safety and mobility, particularly the role of person-environment interactions in predicting driving mobility, such as how health difficulties determine how mobile an older adult is and their mobility modes.

Kaitlin is interested in how context, specifically parenting, influences early childhood development, as well as how macro-level and individual indicators influence family development.

Cassidy's research focuses on the links between social functioning, emotion regulation, and psychopathology (internalizing and externalizing behaviors) across childhood and adolescence, with a particular interest in underlying biological mechanisms.

Lawrie's research focuses on family-based prevention and evidence-based policy.

Katherine's research interests lie in the neural and psychological mechanisms of well-being during pregnancy and the postpartum period, with a particular interest in stress and emotion regulation during the transition to parenthood.

Eric studies individual differences in addiction and recovery and implementation efforts to meet those needs.

Anna's research aims to understand the development and implications of body image concerns and related adjustment problems for individual and family wellbeing, including how contextual factors interact to shape risk for developing psychological adjustment problems.

Abigail's research focuses on child social-emotional development in school contexts and humanitarian settings.

Christine's research focuses on family relationships in the transition to parenthood and early infancy, attachment, and parenting and parental mental health.

Kyler’s research focuses on the dynamic psychological, social, and emotional processes involved in successful treatment and recovery from opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders.

Ann Shun's research focuses on foster care, child maltreatment, placement stability, demography, attachment security, parenting, administrative data, and prevention and intervention.

Mackenzie focuses on young adult health and well-being and is passionate about nutrition-related outcomes, and prevention and intervention science.

Jungmin is interested in innovative methodology, particularly in measuring and modeling psychological growth in the academic context; his recent work includes assessing the effectiveness of digital education for elementary students' reading and math skills.

Sun Ah's research interests are in the intersections between healthy aging, daily experiences, and methodology, including examining psychosocial and health-behavioral factors of physical health outcomes in later life, as well as biological pathways under this relationship.

Yanling's research lies in the development and application of methods for studying inter-individual differences in intra-individual changes to address questions related to substance use, as well as software tools to facilitate the dissemination of statistical methods.

Christa studies the processes that foster positive mental health and wellbeing in African American communities, investigating health disparities and developing culturally adapted health and mindfulness interventions to improve mental, social, and emotional health outcomes.

Griselda is interested in the role of stressors in developmental pathways to alcohol and other substance use and mental health outcomes among ethnic/racial minoritized populations, with an emphasis on Latinx adolescents.

Keiana's research lies at the intersection of child and adolescent development, family systems dynamics, and sociocultural processes, specifically how families influence child development while embedded in a society rooted in white supremacist ideology, norms, and behaviors.

Sara is generally interested in substance use in midlife and older adulthood, in particular, family and interpersonal factors predicting substance use in later life.

Suyoung is interested in identifying protective factors (e.g., gratitude, confidence) that may buffer the impacts of caregiving on health among family caregivers of older adults with chronic illnesses.

Kelly's research focuses on parenting, social and emotional development in the parent-adolescent context, psychological well-being, and the overall emotional climate of the family, as well as prevention and intervention research.

Anneke's interests include identifying mechanisms and moderators in the relationship between experiences of maltreatment and psychological and behavioral outcomes, as well as developing prevention and treatment programs for children and families impacted by child maltreatment.

Jonathan identifies nomothetic trends in idiographic processes—individual data to identify group commonalities—as well as community detection, LASSO regularization, and dynamic network modeling.

Daniel is interested in using intensive longitudinal modeling to characterize the neural circuitry that contribute to the transition from goal-directed to habitual behavior, which can provide a deeper understanding of the neurobiological etiology and dynamics of substance use.

Wen's research interest is in studying intraindividual differences in substance abuse recovery and how that may be predicted by characteristics in adolescence, as well as gaining a better understanding of the impacts of substance use on adolescent development.

Danielle's research focuses on behavioral and social development in childhood and psychophysiological and biological indicators of behavior; parent-child relationships; prevention and intervention methods; and family policy.

Riki is interested in a biopsychosocial approach to cognitive aging, as well as how various risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular disease influence cognitive aging and cognitive decline.

Carlie studies how adolescent perceptions of family relationships shape their well-being and behavior, as well as the origins and implications of divergent perspectives within the family, such as when adolescents and parents have differing perceptions of family functioning.

Mayra's research interests focus on child and adolescent maltreatment prevention and intervention.

Sunshine focuses on how children understand healthy sexuality and relationships in the context of child sexual abuse, and advancing prevention and intervention strategies to improve the wellbeing of children from underrepresented and marginalized communities.

Jillian's research focuses on the complex decisions necessary in building optimized behavioral and biobehavioral interventions capable of yielding maximal public health impact, currently focusing on intervention optimization using multiphase optimization strategy (MOST).

Sienna is interested in child maltreatment prevention and policy.

Shyuan Ching's research focuses on minority older adults' cognitive health and psychological well-being in the context of health disparities.

Ashley aims to delineate risk factors that may play a role in influencing the physical and psychological health outcomes of spousal caregivers and care-recipients, as well as identify challenges to the use of evidence-based interventions that aim to improve elder family care.

Sarah is interested in the effects of early adversity on children's emotional development and behavior problems, such as aggression and oppositionality, as well as the mechanisms through which adversity affects developmental processes.

Junyan's research interests focus on cognitive functions in older adults, such as working memory and visual processing, as well as interventions that can improve older adults' daily functions and driving safety.

Sabrina's research interests focus on the transition to parenthood and early childhood development with particular emphasis on coparenting at bedtime and nighttime parenting practices as they influence infant sleep regulation over time.

Julie's research involves developing novel quantitative methods to study development at the intersection of different timescales, and applying these principles of multiple timescale analysis to the area of affect dynamics.

Xiaoyue's research interests are focused on quantitative methods for intensive longitudinal data, network analysis, and cognitive diagnostic models.