People

Current Lab Members

Roger Ratcliff
Gail McKoon

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)