Our Team

Principal Investigator

Richard Arum

Professor of Education, Sociology, Criminology and Law and Society


Co-Principal Investigator

Michael Dennin

Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at UCI, Professor of Physics and Astronomy


Affiliated Faculty

Gustavo Carlo

Professor of Education

Jacquelynne Eccles

Distinguished Professor of Education and Psychology

Nia Nixon

Assistant Professor of Education

Jutta Heckhausen

Professor of Psychological Science

Brian Sato

Associate Dean, Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation and Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Mark Warschauer

Professor of Education and Informatics, Director of the Digital Learning Lab, and Director of the UCI Teaching and Learning Research Center

Di Xu

Associate Professor of Education


Project Researchers

Jackie Cavazos

Postdoctoral Scholar

David Chang

Project Coordinator

Don Mathew

Data Warehouse Developer

Enrique Valencia Lopez

Postdoctoral Scholar

Faith Ann Couts

Ph.D. in Education Student

Jeffrey M. DeVries

Postdoctoral Scholar

Mateo Orozco

Ph.D. in Sociology Student

Sofia Jaime

Ph.D. in Sociology Student

Taylor Wycoff

Ph.D. in Education Student

Xunfei Li

Postdoctoral Scholar


Project Affiliates

Lisa Bardach

Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen

Maria Calderon

Psychology PhD student at the University of California, Davis

Former Lab Manager

Martin Dybdahl

PhD scholar in Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute

Christian Fischer

Senior Data Analyst, Intermate Media GmbH

Monique Harrison

Institutional Researcher, Cornell University

Rosa Lavelle-Hill

Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen

Luise von Keyserlingk

Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen

Hye Rin Lee

Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Delaware

Qiujie Li

Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education(NIE)

Oded Mcdossi

Assistant Professor, University of Haifa

Julia Moeller

Assistant Professor of Educational
Psychology, University of Leipzig

Gabriel Orona

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Tübingen

Charlott Rubach

Junior Professor at University of Rostock

SuYeong (Sophie) Shin

Research Professor at Korea University

Renzhe Yu

Assistant Professor, Teachers College Columbia University


Research Assistants

Anthony Cusimano

Undergraduate in Data Science

Callen Kozaru

Undergraduate in Education Sciences

Cindy Li

Undergraduate in Education Sciences, Social Ecology, and Psychological Sciences

Clarabelle Suhandinata

Undergraduate in Business Administration

Connie Yang

Undergraduate in Computer Science

Danielle Shariff

Undergraduate in Criminology, Law, and Society and Education Sciences

Einar Gatchalian

Undergraduate in Computer Science

Grace Swanberg

Undergraduate in Economics

Harshini Sasikumar

Undergraduate in Psychological Sciences

Jacob Wu

Undergraduate in Criminology, Law, and Society and Education Sciences

Jessica Cai

Learning Sciences PhD Student at Northwestern University

Kayla Hoang

Undergraduate in English and History

Nguyen Dong

Undergraduate in Education Sciences and Psychological Sciences

Rebecca Su

Undergraduate in Computer Science

Vedant Khatri

Undergraduate in Computer Science


List of Lab Alumni