People
Meet the team
Guanglei Hong is Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is the Inaugural Chair of the University-wide Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences and a member of the Committee on Education. Before joining the University of Chicago faculty in July 2009, she had been an Assistant Professor in the Human Development and Applied Psychology Department in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Prof. Hong has focused her research on developing causal inference theories and methods for evaluating educational and social policies and programs and for assessing the impacts of major contextual changes on child and youth development in multi-level, longitudinal settings. Her current research agenda is centered on causal moderation and mediation methodology. She has contributed original concepts and methods, developed analytic tools, and conducted important application studies in education and beyond. Her book “Causality in a social world: Moderation, mediation, and spill-over” was published by Wiley in 2015. She guest edited the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness special issue on the statistical approaches to studying mediator effects in education research in 2012. Additionally, through publishing in first-tier statistics, education, psychology, and public policy journals and disseminating new methods through workshops and training institutes, her research has generated a broad impact among quantitative methodologists as well as applied researchers. She has received research and training grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation, among other funding agencies. For more information, please visit her website.
Jose Eos Trinidad is a doctoral student at the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. His research interests intersect quantitative methods, organizational studies, and educational programs. His research has been published in more than a dozen international journals and he is author of two books on research, Researching Philippine Realities and Error-Proofing Your Research.
Adelle Durrell is a Comparative Human Development and Psychology double major at the University of Chicago, with plans to graduate in June 2022. In addition to this research regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, she is interested in and has been involved with a Peer Learning in Applied Statistics study and surgery research concerning prostate cancer and opioid use. Outside of class, she enjoys baking, journaling, and playing on the Womxn’s Rugby club team.
Allie Chu is currently double majoring in Public Policy and Computer Science at the University of Chicago and will graduate in Spring 2023. Alongside helping with the codebook and user guide for the Coping with COVID-19, she is interested in user experience design and built the website for the research project. When she’s not in school, Allie is often practicing with UChicago’s Womxn’s Ultimate Frisbee Team, going to grocery stores, or cooking.
Isabel Agolini is a senior at the University of Chicago where she is double-majoring in Comparative Human Development and Global Studies. She collaborated with the Coping with COVID team to develop the codebook, user manual, and the preliminary data analysis of the survey data. Her senior honors thesis investigates the way women aged 18-45 think about, manage, and experience their eating disorders and disordered eating behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kelsey Yang (’20) recently graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in English Language & Literature. She also double-minored in Education & Society and East Asian Languages & Civilizations. Kelsey’s current research examines respondents’ perceptions of gain and loss during the pandemic, primary protective and risk factors to wellbeing, and the specific ways in which uncertainty stress generated by the novel coronavirus has affected students’ academic/career pursuits and social interactions. Her future research interests focus on the intersection of developmental psychology and educational attainment, specifically how socioeconomic factors inform cultural habitus, and the ways in which genetic and epigenetic factors condition individuals to navigate educational spaces. Kelsey hopes to pursue a career aimed at helping people.
Rose Pikman is an international student from Berlin, Germany. She spent a little over 9 years in Dallas, and now is part of the Class of 2023 at the University of Chicago. She is planning to complete a major or two in the Social Sciences, prospectively in History and Global Studies. For this study, she is in charge of the related literature section on the website—she has been researching, reading, summarizing articles and composing a downloadable Excel sheet. Besides that, she loves helping and encouraging others as she is participating in at least 3 mentorship programs on campus. In her free time, she loves exploring new places or nature through some good runs, occasionally socializing and reading anything written by human hands.
Ismail Youssou is a double major in Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, with plans of graduating in spring 2023. Ismail was primarily responsible for analyzing and formatting the dataset and survey information. In his spare time he enjoys thrifting and working on various software-based projects.