April 17-19, 2024: Visit by Marie-Ann Sengewald & Carolin Strobl

Project work at the intersection of psychometrics and machine learning.

Together with Carolin Strobl (University of Zurich) and Marie-Ann Sengwald (Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg, Germany), we are working on an integration of effect size measures for differential item and step functioning in rating data into a machine learning method. We were very happy to welcome both collaborators in Basel this week to discuss the research project and future work!

March 25-26, 2024: SDS at the Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL Lausanne

Jan & Mirka visited the Applied Machine Learning Days.

How will machine learning and artificial intelligence change how we live, work, and interact with each other? Which strategies are used to develop new algorithm? And how can we train data engineers so that these developments are responsible and sustainable?
We were very happy to have had the opportunity to learn more about these topics – among others by Aleksander Madry from OpenAI – at the AMLD in Lausanne over the past few days.

February 15, 2024: Welcome Jan!

We are happy to welcome Jan as a new member of our SDS team.

Jan graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Fribourg. At the moment, he is studying psychology in the master’s program at the University of Zurich. He already completed his master thesis at the chair of psychological methodology in which he evaluated statistical methods for assessing test fairness.

During his research internship, Jan will contribute to a research project at the intersection of psychometrics and machine learning. His primary focus until June will be to conduct simulation studies to assess the effectiveness of a psychometric effect size in a machine learning method.

February 1, 2024: Start of the Center for Statistics & Data Science

From February 1, Mirka Henninger starts as the new assistant professor for statistics and data science.

Mirka studied psychology at the University of Mannheim and the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, and received her doctorate from the University of Mannheim in 2019. Starting 2020, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher and from 2023 onward as a senior researcher for psychological methods at the Department of Psychology of the University of Zurich.
The research focus of the new Center is the development and assessment of psychometric models, machine learning methods, and multilevel modelling approaches and to test their applicability in psychological research.

(Foto: zvg/Sonja Ruckstuhl)

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