Current Lab Members
Alex Fennell, Graduate Student
Hanrui Mei, Graduate Student
Hanrui is a PhD student in the quantitative area. She graduated from Indiana University in 2022 with a B.S in Mathematics and a B.A in Psychology and Economics. Her main research interests include Judgement and decision making, response time modeling, diffusion model and other sequential sampling models. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, painting, going to museums and art galleries, and watching movies.
Russ Childers, Systems Developer/Engineer
Russ joined the lab in 2003 as a programmer and electrical engineer. He programs the real-time data-gathering software and conducts data analysis. Russ also has integrated eyetracking, driving simulators, touchscreens, EEG, and voice control into the data-gathering and analysis process. Russ has been a co-author on several papers produced by the lab. In his spare time, Russ enjoys playing the flute and saxophone in several area concert and orchestral bands, plus he is an avid amateur astronomer.
Evie Waters, Research Associate
Evie graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Environmental Studies in 2023. With a particular interest in developmental and cognitive psychology, she joined the lab in March 2024, taking care of the lab’s day-to-day operations; including running experiments, continuing grant work, overseeing the undergraduate RAs, etc. Outside of the lab, Evie enjoys going hiking/camping, looking through antiques stores, and spending time with her cat, Spoof!
Allyson Bishop, Research Assistant
Allyson (Ally) is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Spanish. She looks forward to learning more about memory and aging through cognitive research. Outside of the lab, Ally is a part of the OSU Humanities Scholars, and enjoys playing bass guitar, sewing, and spending time outdoors.
Sofia deJesus, Research Assistant
Sofia is a second-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychology. She looks forward to learning more about cognitive psychology and decision making. Outside of the lab, Sofia is a part of the Morrill Scholars Program, and enjoys watching movies, baking, and traveling.
Recent Graduate Students + Postdocs
Corey White, Graduate student
Jeff Starns, Postdoc
Fabio Leite, Postdoc
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Postdoc
Pablo Gomez, Graduate student
Simon Farrell, Postdoc
Jeff Rouder, Postdoc
David Allbritton, Postdoc
Trisha Van Zandt, Postdoc
Inhan Kang, Graduate Student
Yonatan Vanunu, Postdoc
These recent past lab members took jobs in private industry:
Chelsea Voskuilen
Ph.D. student, now working as Marketing Data Scientist at Ford Motor Company
Jessica Love
Ph.D. student, now working as Editor-in-Chief of Kellogg Insight at Northwestern University
Bethany Casto
Master’s student, now working as Cybersecurity Project Management Consultant at JPI in WV
Victor Intermaggio
Master’s student, now working as a Researcher for Riot Games (previously Business Analyst with Amazon)