Working

June 2021 - Jan 2022
Stanford Research Institute (SRI) | Associate Researcher (Internship)

Dec 2022 - June 2023
The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Postdoctoral Fellow

Jan 2024 - Current
University of Arkansas | Tenure-track Assistant Professor

Education

Aug 2011 - Dec 2013
B.S. Law | Soochow University

Aug 2009 - Dec 2013
B.S. Applied Psychology | Soochow University

Aug 2015 - Dec 2019
M.S. Educational Psychology & Research | University of Kansas

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Ph.D. Educational Measurement & Statistics | University of Iowa

Interests

• AI in Educational Measurement and Psychometrics
• Psychometric network and Latent variable modeling
• Machine Learning and data mining in Education
• Diagnostic Classification Models

News

• 2025-03-30: New journal paper accepted by Behavioral Sciences: Comparing Frequentist and Bayesian Methods for Factorial Invariance with Latent Distribution Heterogeneity, Authors: Xinya Liang *, Ji Li, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, Jihong Zhang

• 2025-03-27: New journal paper published (online first) by Learning and Individual Differences:Math anxiety is associated with skipping problems and less help-seeking behavior after error commission,

• 2025-02-28: I have been elected to serve as Secretary/Treasurer (3-year term begins in 2025) of the Cognition and Assessment SIG (SIG #167) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). My term will begin at the conclusion of the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting.

Teaching

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