Pengda Wang

I am a third-year Industrial-Organizational Psychology Ph.D. student at Rice University, advised by Prof. Fred Oswald and Prof. Tianjun Sun (Co-Advised).

Prior to this, I received my B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in Computer Science, both with high distinction, from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where I had the privilege of working with Prof. Richard Landers, Prof. Deniz Ones, and Prof. Gail Ferguson.

My primary research interests are centered around leveraging innovative technologies to enhance psychometric assessments and employee selection. I am particularly interested in how personality and individual differences can be more accurately and fairly assessed through the integration of advanced quantitative methods. I am also committed to advancing open science through the adoption of novel methodologies. My aim is to become an I-O psychologist who is an expert in quantitative analysis, with a keen focus on harnessing machine learning to elevate the accuracy and fairness of psychological measurement and personnel selection systems.

Applied Experience

  1. Company
    Google Google LLC (Incoming Intern)
    Position
    Research Scientist, People Analytic Team, Boulder, CO, USA
    Date
  2. Company
    HITE EQ HITE EQ (Contract)
    Position
    Research Scientist, Individual Differences AI/ML Assessment, Chicagoland, IL, USA
    Date
  3. Company
    Midjourney Midjourney, Inc (Intern)
    Position
    ML/AI Ph.D. Resident, Psychometric Team, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Date

Research Experience

  1. Lab
    Rice Chili Lab with Dr. Hanjie Chen
    Position
    Research Assistant, Houston, TX, USA
    Date
  2. Lab
    SMART Lab with Dr. Tianjun Sun
    Position
    Research Assistant, Houston, TX, USA
    Date
  3. Lab
    OWL Lab with Dr. Fred Oswald
    Position
    Research Assistant, Houston, TX, USA
    Date
  4. Lab
    UMN CFL Lab with Dr. Gail Ferguson
    Position
    Research Assistant, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Date
  5. Lab
    TNTLAB with Dr. Richard Landers
    Position
    Research Assistant, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Date
  6. Lab
    Ones Lab with Dr. Deniz Ones
    Position
    Research Assistant, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Date

Service

  1. Journal
    ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
    Role
    Reviewer
    Date
  2. Journal
    Industrial and Organizational Psychology (IOP)
    Role
    Reviewer
    Date
  3. Conference
    Association for Computational Linguistics Rolling Review (ARR)
    Role
    Reviewer
    Date
  4. Conference
    Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
    Role
    Reviewer
    Date
  5. Conference
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
    Role
    Reviewer
    Date
  6. Conference
    Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference (SIOP)
    Role
    Reviewer
    Date
  7. Conference
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
    Role
    Reviewer
    Date