Sarah Depaoli

Dr. Sarah Depaoli is an associate professor of Quantitative Psychology at the University of California, Merced. Her research interests are largely focused on issues surrounding Bayesian estimation of latent variable models.

Associate Editor for Psychological Methods, 2019-present

Associate Editor for Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2017-present

Guest Editor for Special Issue on Quantitative Methods in Psychology for Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2017-2018

Elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), 2016-present

Recipient of the 2015 Rising Star (Early Career) Award, Association for Psychological Sciences (Quantitative Psychology division)

Recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association, Division 5 (Methods)

2019:
Congrats to Sonja for a first authored paper on approximate measurement invariance in IJBD (methods and measures section)!.
Lydia Marvin to join the Depaoli lab (also co-advised with Dr. Haiyan Liu) in August.
Patrice Cobb was hooded at May 2019 commencement, and then accepted a job at Facebook!
Congrats to Marieke Visser for a great presentation in April on 3-step approaches to LCA during the department's first year talks!
Sonja Winter (along with former Ph.D. graduate, Katie Coburn) lead a workshop on building Shiny Apps in April.
Sarah Depaoli becomes Associate Editor of Psychological Methods, January 2019.
2018:
Sanne Smid, PhD student from Utrecht University, visited during the month of October 2018 to continue work with Sarah Depaoli on Bayesian priors.
Yuzhu (June) Yang is now Dr. Yang! She successfully defended her dissertation (September 2018) and is now a Quantitative Researcher at Gartner, Arlington, VA. Congrats, June! We will miss you tons!
Marieke Visser joins the Depaoli Lab as a new PhD student, coming from Texas State University
Johnny Felt successfully defended his dissertation (June 2018) and will start as a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State later this summer. Congrats, Johnny! We will miss you!
Johnny Felt and June Yang received their PhD hoods at the May 2018 Commencement ceremony! Johnny's hooding made it to the official video!
Johnny Felt was featured as "Bobcat of the Month" for September!
2017:
Sonja Winter published a paper using Bayes Factors applied to research with robots
Sanne Smid to join Depaoli Lab as visiting PhD student from Utrecht University (September 2017)
Sarah Depaoli promoted to Associate Professor (July 2017)
June Yang and Patrice Cobb passed their candidacy exams in summer 2017!! Congrats!
2016 and earlier:
Sarah, June, and Johnny publish new paper in Structural Equation Model: A Multidisciplinary Journal on Bayesian mixture models
Sarah, James, and Patrice publish new paper in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics on Jags
Sarah and James publish new paper in Health Psychology Review on Bayesian statistics
Sarah and Sonja publish new paper in Psychological Methods on Bayesian statistics in Psychology
Sonja Winter joins the Depaoli Lab as a new PhD student, coming from Utrecht University
Johnny Felt passed his candidacy exam in June 2016!! Congrats!
James Clifton, Patrice Cobb, and June Yang presented at Modern Modeling Methods Conference, UConn, May 2016
Sarah Depaoli elected into the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, April 2016
Sarah Depaoli received Rising Star (Early Career) Award from the Association for Psychological Sciences, Quantitative Psychology, December 2015
Sarah Scott receives her PhD! Summer 2015

Director:
-Sarah Depaoli, PhD

Ph.D. Students:

Patrice Cobb (6th year)
Lydia Marvin (1st year)
Marieke Visser (2nd year)
Sonja Winter (4th year)

Visiting Doctoral Students:

Sanne Smid, 2018, 2017 (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Inge Schrooten, 2016 (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Ph.D. Graduates:

Yuzhu (June) Yang, 2018 (Quantitative Researcher at Gartner)
Johnny Felt, 2018 (postdoctoral fellow at Penn State)
Sarah Scott, 2015 (entered PhD clinical retraining program)

You can learn more about them and their research interests here.