I am an Assistant Professor of Teaching at UC Irvine’s School of Education and direct the Analytics, Cognition & Education Lab.
I am very passionate about training students in educational data science and am the Co-Director for the IES funded program, Career Pathways for Researching Learning and Education, Analytics and Data Science (CP-LEADS).
My main line of research focuses on using learning analytics to better understand student achievement in technology-enhanced and online STEM courses. Another area of my work focuses on college students’ critical thinking abilities, especially in the context of reading misleading information.
I enjoy teaching various courses in our undergraduate Education Sciences program as well as the statistics course in our PhD program.
Prior to my faculty appointment, I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Digital Learning Lab, where I managed the NSF-funded project, Investigating Virtual Learning Environments. Before coming to UC Irvine, I worked at WestEd where I helped schools make data-driven decisions that improved learning outcomes in classrooms.
I received my master’s degree in Developmental Psychology and my Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan. I was also a fellow at the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course while at Michigan.
I received my B.A. in psychology from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and I owe much of where I am today to the great faculty there and to the NIMH-COR training program that helped support my development as a scholar.