I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in Human Development in Context. I hold an M.S.Ed. in Human Development from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Ed. in Early Childhood Education, with a minor in Psychology, from the University of Macau.

My research lies at the intersection of developmental science, educational intervention, and quantitative methodology. My dissertation examines the mechanisms underlying the long-term impacts of educational interventions through three guiding questions: (1) how longitudinal models can be specified to study skill co-development, (2) whether initial intervention impacts can ripple out to other skills over time, and (3) how intervention effects unfold in real-world educational contexts. My dissertation brings together three integrated studies using longitudinal modeling, simulation, meta-analytic techniques, and a large-scale field experiment conducted in partnership with three local school districts and a math teacher educator team.

Research Interests: Child Development, Educational Interventions, Mathematics Learning and Motivation, Quantitative Methods