Faculty Members
Irini Moustaki
Irini Moustaki
Irini Moustaki
Prof Irini Moustaki is a professor in social statistics at the Department of Statistics, LSE.
Yunxiao Chen
Irini Moustaki
Irini Moustaki
Dr Yunxiao Chen is an associate professor in statistics at the Department of Statistics, LSE.
POSTDOCTORAL rESEARCHERS
Camilo Cardenas-Hurtado
Dr Camilo Cardenas-Hurtado is an LSE Fellow at the Department of Statistics at LSE.
PHD students
Motonori Oka
Motonori Oka
Motonori Oka
Motonori Oka is a PhD student (started in 2022) in the Department of Statistics, LSE.
Yuqing Xie
Motonori Oka
Motonori Oka
Yuqing Xie is a PhD student (started in 2025) in the Department of Statistics, LSE.
Yuxuan Xu
Motonori Oka
Yuxuan Xu
Yuxuan Xu is a PhD student (started in 2025) in the Department of Statistics, LSE.
Visitors
Tongxin Zhang
Michaela Cichrova
Michaela Cichrova
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.
Michaela Cichrova
Michaela Cichrova
Michaela Cichrova
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.
AFFiLIATES
Fiona Steele
Fiona Steele
Fiona Steele
Prof Fiona Steele is a professor in social statistics at the Department of Statistics, LSE.
Jouni Kuha
Fiona Steele
Fiona Steele
Prof Jouni Kuha is a professor in social statistics at the Department of Methodology and Department of Statistics, LSE.
Alumni
Gabriel Wallin
Gabriel Wallin
Gabriel Wallin
Dr Gabriel Wallin is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor - tenure track) in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University.
Siliang Zhang
Gabriel Wallin
Gabriel Wallin
Dr. Siliang Zhang is an assistant professor at the School of Statistics, East China Normal University.
Haoran Zhang
Gabriel Wallin
Haoran Zhang
Dr. Haoran Zhang is an
assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, at the Southern University of Science and Technology.
Yan Lu
Gabriel Wallin
Haoran Zhang
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.
Giuseppe Alfonzetti
Giuseppe Alfonzetti
Giuseppe Alfonzetti
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 Alfonzetti
Giuseppe Alfonzetti
Giuseppe Alfonzetti
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.
Rosa Fabbricatore
Giuseppe Alfonzetti
Rosa Fabbricatore
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.
Xinyi Liu
Giuseppe Alfonzetti
Rosa Fabbricatore
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
Tamara Gaia Vasiljev
Tamara Gaia Vasiljev
Tamara Gaia Vasiljev is a PhD student from the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca. Tamara is visiting the lab to work on robust methods for multivariate data. Tamara was a visiting student of the group in 2025.