Faculty Members

Dr Camilo Cárdenas Hurtado is a postdoc researcher at the University of Amsterdam. He was a former PhD student supervised by Prof Irini Moustaki and Dr Yunxiao Chen. 

Dr Gabriel Wallin is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor - tenure track) in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University.

 Dr. Siliang Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Statistics, East China Normal University. 

 Dr. Haoran Zhang is an 

assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, at the Southern University of Science and Technology. 

Dr. Yan Lu was a former PhD student supervised by Prof Irini Moustaki and Dr Yunxiao Chen. She did her PhD in the Department of Statistics, LSE, from 2017-2022. She is now a statistician at the Population, Policy and Practice Department at UCL.

Dr. Giuseppe Alfonzetti is a postdoc researcher at the Economics and Statistics department of the University of Udine. Giuseppe was a visiting student of the group in the spring of 2022.  

Giuseppe Mignemi is a postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University. Giuseppe was a visiting student of the group in the spring of 2023. He is now an assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences of Kore University.

Dr. Rosa Fabbricatore is a researcher at the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Her research focuses on latent variable models, with a particular emphasis on their innovative application within the field of Learning Analytics.

Dr. Xinyi Liu was a former PhD student supervised by Prof Irini Moustaki and Dr Yunxiao Chen. She did her PhD in the Department of Statistics, LSE, from 2021-2025. She is now a quantitative researcher at Xantium.

Tamara Gaia Vasiljev is a PhD student from the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca. Tamara was a visiting student of the group in 2025.

Tongxin Zhang is a PhD student from the Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University. Tongxin is visiting the lab to work on process data analysis. Tongxin visited the lab in 2025-26.

Michaela is a PhD student in Statistics at Charles University and a PhD fellow at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In her dissertation, she focuses on extending statistical methods for measurement invariance and differential item functioning. Michaela visited the lab in 2026.