I am an incoming graduate student from Sichuan, China.  I came to the U.S in 2014 to pursue my undergraduate studies at UC Davis in Cognitive Neuroscience and Statistics. Before joining our graduate group, I spent three years assisting research projects about memory, perception, cognitive development, health and well-being.

I‘m broadly interested in advanced quantitative methodology and statistical models (time series analysis, multilevel modeling, heterogeneity modeling, etc) in analyzing intensive longitudinal data (repeated measurements, EMA, EEG, fMRI, etc). I want to apply and develop them to better explain individual differences and intra-individual changes in human psychological development over time, especially in topics investigating psychological well-being, brain process and social emotional development at all life phrases.

In my leisure time, I enjoy either staying at home to play arts and crafts or going out to hike, travel and endless food adventures. 

Presentation

Zhou, Jody (2021) Variable Selection Comparison of LASSO and Stepwise Regression, International Meeting of the Psychometric Society.