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Honors & Masters Recipient
Masters Thesis: Evaluation and Comparison of Statistical Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data
Honors Thesis: Bayesian Methods Tutorials for Psychological Research
Recipient of the 2024 Glushko Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Symbolic Systems
Symbolic Systems
Stanford University
Julia (she/her/hers) joined the lab in the summer of 2022 through the PsychSummer program, in which she researched quantitative methods of modeling psychological dynamics. She is interested in conducting further research in the areas of quantitative & computational psychology, affective science, and cognitive science. Julia grew up in the Chicago area and enjoys dancing, reading, and spending time with her two dogs.
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