Graduate Students
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Visit the prospective graduate students page.
Current Graduate Students
Asher Denny
2nd Year PhD Student
Emily Gerkin
6th Year PhD Student
Seoyeong Jeong
1st Year PhD Student
WooJin Jeong
1st Year PhD Student
Jordan Holmes
3rd Year PhD Student
Joie Magalona
3rd Year PhD Student
Sergio Marquez
7th Year PhD Student
Hee Woong Park
2nd Year PhD Student
Joshua Pearman
5th Year PhD Student
Rachel Pyram
5th Year PhD Student
William Scott
5th Year PhD Student
Caton Weinberger
2nd Year PhD Student
Ethan Wright
1st Year PhD Student
Xiaolong Zhang
2nd Year PhD Student
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates!
Internship Highlights
Joshua Pearman interned with the with Roblox as a People Science Intern.
"I was a People Science Intern at Roblox primarily working on assessment development. My role involved developing a new situational judgement test, which is sort of like a job relevant "What would you do about this problem?" question. Roblox was a great place to intern because I was really interested in how industrial-organizational psychology is applied in a technology company."
Rachael Pyram interned with the People Analytics unit at Google.
"I was within the People Analytics unit and worked on the DEI Analytics team. I primarily worked on assessing the impact of a career development and retention program, which informs whether the program is operating as intended and if the participants are experiencing favorable outcomes."
Jo Alanis interned with the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) in Alexandria, VA as an I-O Psychology Research Intern.
"As an intern on the Assessment, Development, and Evaluation team, I worked on developing items for various assessments, crafting surveys for diversity & inclusion initiatives, and leading focus groups & feedback sessions with different organizational stakeholders."
Caitlin Briggs was a Research Science Intern in Talent Assessment for Amazon.
“I worked on a small team that investigated research questions regarding selection and assessment at Amazon and regularly met with leadership to present and discuss the implications of our findings for the organization at large. I owned two projects that focused on improving the interview process and presented my findings to leadership at the end of the summer.”
Connor Eichenauer was a Talent Assesments Strategist for Honeywell.
"At Honeywell, I worked within the Talent Assessments team to build, implement, and maintain a portfolio of assessments for both selection and development purposes. Example projects include validating and deploying executive selection assessments, standing up executive and high potential leadership development assessment programs, developing tools that provide onboarding tips based on assessment results, and creating interview guides and interview training programs."
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