Alumni
COGNITIVE PHD PROGRAM ALUMNI
Ivan Ash PhD 2005
Associate Professor, Old Dominion University
Jason Braasch PhD 2009
Associate Professor, Georgia State University
Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Poitiers
Candice Burkett PhD 2020
Assistant Professor, University of Montana Western
Michael Bunting PhD 2003
Area Director, Cognitive Psychology, Center for Advanced Study of Language University of Maryland
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Missouri, Columbia 2003-2005
Reality Sincere Canty PhD 2013
User Experience Researcher, Google
Experience Researcher, Airbnb
Senior UX Researcher, AT&T
Co-Founder and Director, UX Research and Insights
Postdoctoral Research Associate, LSRI
Spencer Campbell PhD 2017
Assistant Professor, Lewis University
Teaching Fellow at Augustana College
Andriana Christofalos PhD 2021
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Albany, SUNY
Gregory Colflesh PhD 2009
Research Associate, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Studies of Language
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognition in Adulthood and Later Life, Georgia Tech
Patrick Cushen PhD 2011
Assistant Professor, Murray State University
Research Associate, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Studies of Language
Frances Daniel PhD 2009
Assistant Professor, Indiana University Northwest
Tim George PhD 2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College
Joshua Hemmerich PhD 2005
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
Scott Hinze PhD 2010
Assistant Professor, Middle Georgia State University
Assistant Professor, Virginia Wesleyan College
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University
Allison Jaeger PhD 2015
Assistant Professor, Saint John’s University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Spatial Learning and Intelligence, Temple University
Andrew Jarosz PhD 2015
Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
Ben D. Jee PhD 2007
Associate Professor, Worcester State University
Assistant Professor, Rhode Island College
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Spatial Learning and Intelligence, Northwestern University
Trina Kershaw PhD 2006
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Rebecca Koppel PhD 2015
Marketing Science Partner, Facebook
Senior Data Scientist, 360i
Senior Analyst, Citadel
Senior Analyst, Sears
Jordan Lippman PhD 2011
Director of Research, Collaboration Nation
Founder, The TeamBuilder Group
Founder, ISA Learning
Research Director, Project Playground
Executive Director, Interactive Story Adventures
Founder, NameGames
Postdoctoral Researcher, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
Matt McCurdy PhD 2020
User Experience Researcher, Microsoft
Marta Mielicki PhD 2019
Postdoctoral Teaching Professor, Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Researcher, Kent State
Timothy K. Miura PhD 2005
Instructor, Loyola University Chicago
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Psychology Department, Indiana University
Timothy Nokes PhD 2004
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Beckman Institute, UIUC
Mark Orr PhD 2003
Associate Research Professor, Virginia Tech
Associate Research Scientist of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Postdoctoral Scholar, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Postdoctoral Scholar, Carnegie Mellon University
Felix Pambuccian PhD 2021
Assistant Professor, Winona State University
Jared Ramsburg PhD 2016
Senior User Experience Researcher, Quora
User Experience Researcher, Google
User Experience Researcher, Facebook
Travis Ricks PhD 2010
Associate Professor, Bemidji State
Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan State University
Bonnie L. Rosenblatt PhD 2003
Assistant Professor, Albright College
Leah Rubin PhD 2009
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, UIC Department of Psychiatry
Carlos Salas PhD 2017
Senior Data Scientist, Salesloft
Senior Data Scientist, 360i (Digital Marketing Agency)
Christopher A. Sanchez PhD 2006
Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Sushmita Shrikanth PhD 2021
User Experience Researcher, Google
Erin Sovansky Winter PhD 2019
Xbox Researcher, Microsoft
David Therriault PhD 2002
Associate Professor, Human Development & Organizational Studies in Education, University of Florida
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Florida State University
Robert Youmans PhD 2007
User Experience Director, YouTube, Google
Assistant Professor, George Mason University
Assistant Professor, California State University-Northridge