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Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics Colloquium

 

QMDA Colloquium Series Schedule, Fall 2025 - Spring 2026
Department of Psychology & Human Development

Time: Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:30pm (unless otherwise noted)
Organizer: Sonya Sterba
September 1 Labor Day
September 8 Developing taxonomic graph analysis
Alex Christensen, Quantitative Methods & Data Science, Vanderbilt University
September 15 Structured experimentation for prompt and context design in AI-enabled research
Charreau Bell, Data Science & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
September 22 Towards "true" scores: Can AI language-based assessments outperform the instruments on which they train?
H. Andrew Schwartz, College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt University
September 29 No forum
October 6 Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with item-level data: Insights from item response theory
Joshua Gilbert, Harvard Graduate School of Education
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
October 13 The Structural-after-Measurement (SAM) approach: Updates and extensions
Yves Rosseel, Data Analysis & Statistical Science, Ghent University
October 20 An empirical Bayesian choice of weight in distributionally weighted least square estimation of SEM
Hao Wu, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
October 27 Planning racial inequality: Evidence from litigation
Allan Parnell, Founder, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities
November 3 Geometry of statistical models
Francis Tuerlinckx, Quantitative Psychology & Individual Differences, KU Leuven
November 10 From QM to real-world analytics: Navigating early career paths in data and research
Becky (Yingxian) Liu, Statistician, HCA Healthcare
Invited QMDA Program Alumni Colloquium
November 17 Thanksgiving potluck
November 24 Thanksgiving break
December 1 Evaluating the assumption of linearity: Testing the adequacy of parametric models using penalized splines
Madison Hooper, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
January 5 Aleksandar Tomašević, Quantitative Methods, University of Novi Sad
January 12 Andon Rosen, Clinical Science & Quantitative Psychology, Vanderbilt University
January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 26 Simon Lilburn, Data Science & Computational Psychology, Vanderbilt University
February 2 Joint virtual colloquium: TBA
 Special time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
February 9 Sun-Joo Cho, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
February 16 April Bleske-Rechek, Individual Differences & Evolutionary Psychology, University of Wisconsin-EC
February 23 Yunxiao Chen, Statistics, London School of Economics & Political Science
March 2 Amy Liang, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
March 9 Spring break
March 16 Gabriella Noreen, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
March 23 Jeongwon Choi, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
March 30 Annie Belloeil, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
April 6 Emma Headley, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
James Hoban, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Jiaru Huang, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Madison Reid, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
 Special time: 2:00pm - 4:15pm
April 13 Jeffrey Lien, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Bella Norman, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Yiming Shen, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Ariel Ivy, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
 Special time: 2:00pm - 4:15pm
April 20 Alex Ward, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Jingyi Xiao, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Hongyu Yin, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
Teddy (Chunxu) Zong, Quantitative Methods & Data Analytics, Vanderbilt University
 Special time: 2:00pm - 4:15pm

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