People
Principal Investigator
Victoria Savalei
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Graduate Students
Sijia Li
PhD student, Quantitative Methods
Sijia is currently a second-year PhD student. Her research interests broadly focus on quantitative methods in psychology, particularly structural equation modeling (SEM) and methods for analyzing intensive longitudinal data. She is interested in developing and evaluating statistical methods that improve the measurement and modeling of psychological constructs. Her current projects examine 1) model evaluation, fit assessment, and reliability measures for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models, and 2) composites in SEM and their applications in longitudinal and dynamic settings.
Malina Lemmons
PhD student, Quantitative Methods
Malina is a second-year PhD student. Her research focuses on advancing the assessment and evaluation of psychological measurement. Her work examines methodological challenges in measurement invariance, with a particular interest in how researchers’ analytic decisions influence conclusions about the comparability of psychological measures.
Affiliated Graduate Students
Cindy Yu
MA student, Clinical Psychology
Cindy Yu is a clinical psychology graduate student and an affiliated lab member. She previously completed a BHSc and MSc in Epidemiology before making the transition towards psychology. In the UBCSEM Lab, she is working on a tutorial on how to apply structural equation modeling of latent interactions. Personal Website
Adrien Ward
MA student, Quantitative Methods
Undergraduate Students
Atharv Murali
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Manya Bansal
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Manya is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Psychology with a minor in Data Science, and is pursuing a Master of Management dual degree at UBC. At the UBCSEM Lab, she is developing a Shiny app to examine model misfit between bifactor and higher-order factor models (HFM). She also contributes qualitative work to the Department of Psychology’s grading policy revision. LinkedIn
Recent Lab Alumni
Graduate students
Undergraduate students
- Marc (Lianjie) Shi, MSc in Data Science Graduate Student, University of Toronto
- Karyn Huang, MBA Graduate Student, Stanford Business School
- Muhan Yang, PhD Student in Quantitative Psychology, University of Notre Dame