Ai Ye

Ai Ye is a quantitative psychologist and statistician at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where Ye holds a position as Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in the Department of Psychology. Ye completed a Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022, alongside an M.S. in Statistics and Operations Research from the same institution, and an M.A. from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Research focuses on structural equation modeling, longitudinal and intensive longitudinal methods, and machine learning approaches to psychometric models, with additional work on network psychometrics, measurement error, and omitted variable bias. Ye's published work addresses topics ranging from path and directionality discovery in individual dynamic factor models to the development of fraction and arithmetic knowledge in children.