Research Team
Principal Investigator
Current Graduate Students

Kylie Alberts
albertsk@g.ucla.edu

Karina Agadzhanyan
karadefrost@g.ucla.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Ashley Chen
ashleychen1@g.ucla.edu

Kara Hoover
karahoover@ucla.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Emma Kandel
ekandel1@g.ucla.edu
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Graduates of the Lab

Mary Whatley Ph.D. (2024)
Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University
Curriculum Vitae
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Kat Silaj Ph.D. (2024)
Assistant Professor, Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles
Curriculum Vitae
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Dillon Murphy Ph.D. (2023)
Post-Doc at Arizona State University

Shawn Schwartz M.A. (2021)
Graduate Student at Stanford University
shawnschwartz@ucla.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Alex Siegel, Ph.D. (2020)
Quantitative UX Researcher, Lyft
Curriculum Vitae
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Mary Hargis, Ph.D. (2019)
Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University
Research Scientist at IXL Learning

Adam Blake, Ph.D. (2018)
Post-Doc, UCLA
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Catherine Middlebrooks, Ph.D. (2018)

Joseph Hennessee, Ph.D. (2018)
Post-Doc, UT-Dallas

Michael Cohen, Ph.D. (2015)
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Shannon McGillivray, Ph.D. (2013)
Professor, Weber State University, Utah
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Michael Friedman, Ph.D. (2013)
Research Fellow, Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching
Manager, Learning & Development, Oracle
Past Research Fellows

Dr. Ashley Miller
ashleymiller@psych.ucla.edu
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Dr. Kou Murayama
University of Tübingen
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Dr. Kenji Ikeda
Nagoya University, Japan






















