Doctoral Candidate James Balamuta successfully defended his dissertation, “Bayesian Estimation of Restricted Latent Class Models: Extending priors, link functions, and structural models” on June 30th and will graduate August 2021.
Program Area: Data Analytics and Information Visualization
Research: My research interests lie primarily in the cross-sections of computational statistics, psychometric modeling, and large scale data problems. Presently, I am working on exploratory cognitive diagnostic modeling and as well as a way to perform a structured analysis of learning.
Bridging History and Technology: Students Recreate University of Illinois’ Historical Mathematical Models Using 3D printing
Faculty Mentors: Karen Mortensen (Director of the Illinois Mathematics Lab), Sarah Park (Head of the Mathematics Library) Project Leader: Xinran Yu (Ph.D. candidate in the