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Applied research scientist and psychometrician with a Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods in Education and a minor in Statistics. Jiayi works across validation, measurement invariance, reliability, equating, simulation, behavioral-data analysis, subgroup comparability, and human-centered AI evaluation.
Current focus
AI fairness, psychometric validity, human-AI evaluation, high-impact assessment systems, subgroup comparability, and reproducible evidence workflows.
Experience snapshot
Research Scientist · Human Resources Research Organization
Conducts psychometric validation and independent quality reviews for statewide assessment programs; contributes to generative-AI-assisted standards alignment and evidence-mapping workflows; supports psychometric analysis for AAMC PREview; conducts think-aloud cognitive labs and behavioral/cognitive coding.
Applied Psychometric Roles · Pearson / Pearson VUE
Applied psychometric analysis, progress-monitoring evaluation, simulation research, and conference proposal development.
Research and Teaching · University of Minnesota
Developed IRT, equating, invariance, response-time, simulation, and meta-analytic research; co-developed the open-source R package `aberrance`; taught educational and psychological measurement and statistics.
Education
Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods in Education
Minor in Statistics.
M.S. in Educational Psychology and Research
Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics.
B.S. (Honors) in Applied Psychology
Undergraduate training in applied psychology.
Methods and tools
Academic record
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