Summer 2024 Undergraduate Opportunities

The Change Lab @ Stanford studies change and attempts to invoke change. We study how people change, how media change, how the world changes, and how all those changes interact and influence each other over time. We develop novel techniques for measuring change (often using mobile technologies), cool data visualizations (and sonifications), and novel methods for analysis of longitudinal data. We occasionally forward new theories about the dynamics of human behavior and human interaction. Often, we are engaged in analyzing the large repositories of smartphone data collected in the Human Screenome Project and using experience sampling data to study emotion regulation dynamics.

Undergraduate students are encouraged to contribute their own research interests and life perspectives while developing advanced research projects alongside a fast-moving collective of graduate students, post-docs, and faculty working at the edges of the possible.

The Change Lab @ Stanford is committed to global diversity and fostering minority representation in social and computational science. We collaborate widely across schools and departments at Stanford and work with many academic and industry partners across the world to create change.

Skills required:

• Prior research experience or independent project work not required, but helpful
• Familiarity with or desire to learn programming in R and/or Python
• Ability to work independently and as a part of the research team
• Analytical thinking
• Good organizational and documentation skills
• Interest in the processes, dynamics, and implications of ethical human subjects research

Skills to be learned:

• Designing and conducting online research
• Designing and answering a substantive research question, including learning how to select
  appropriate models and analysis methods
• Curation, visualization and analysis of longitudinal data
• Building computational models of human behavior and comparing model predictions to
  human data
• Website and identity development for community outreach
• Interactive visual and/or sonic displays
• Working with large datasets in R/Python and Google Cloud Platform

2024 Psych-Summer Research Program

2024 Summer Undergraduate Research in Symbolic Systems