Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, 2025-Present
Department of Psychology
University of Macau

Statistical Consultant, 2024
Self-employed

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2019-2021
Center for Self-Report Science, Center for Economic and Social Research
University of Southern California

PhD Quantitative Researcher, 2014-2019
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Clinical Psychologist, 2012-2014
Yee Lok Centre (A rehabilitation center for adolescents and adults with severe mental health issues),
Fuhong Society of Macau, Macau

Research Experience

Emotion, Health, and Psychophysiology Lab
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
August, 2021 - 2023
University of California, San Francisco
PI: Wendy Berry Mendes

Center for Self-Report Science
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
April, 2019 - July, 2021
University of Southern California
PIs: Stefan Schneider and Arthur A. Stone

Prevention and Methodology Training
Predoctoral Fellow
(T32 DA017629, PI: Linda Collins.; P50 DA039838, PI: Linda Collins)
July 2017 - Feb 2019
The Pennsylvania State University
Advisors: Gregory M. Fosco, Stephanie T. Lanza, and Michael A. Russell

The Family Process and Well-Being Enrichment Research (POWER) Lab 
Graduate Research Assistant (August 2014 - 2019)
Project Manager (2015-2016)
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
PI: Gregory M. Fosco

Addiction and Innovative Methods Lab
Graduate Research Assistant (July 2017 - 2019)
The Pennsylvania State University
PI: Stephanie T. Lanza

Russell’s Research Lab
Graduate Research Assistant (July 2017 - 2019)
The Pennsylvania State University
PI: Michael A. Russell

Cross-Cultural Comparison of Coping Strategies
Graduate Research Assistant (Sept 2010 - May 2012)
University of Macau, Macau
PI: J. Mark Davis

Cross-Cultural Comparison of Attention
Graduate Research Assistant (Sept 2010 - May 2012)
University of Macau, Macau
​PI: J. Mark Davis


Teaching Experience

Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University
Summer 2018         HDFS 239 – Adolescent Development

Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University
Fall 2016                   HDFS 239 – Adolescent Development; HDFS 418 – Family Relationships
Summer 2016          HDFS 312w – Empirical Inquiry in Human Development (Online)
Spring 2015              HDFS 414 – Resolving Human Development and Family Problems
Fall 2014                   HDFS 229 – Infant and Child Development
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Training
Fall 2022                   The Inclusive Research Mentor Course
Fall 2017                   Teaching course: HDFS515 – Teaching HDFS
Fall 2016                   Graduate Student Online Teaching Certificate


Service

Diversity Chair, HDFS Steering Committee
The Pennsylvania State University
Fall 2016 - Spring 2017

Reviewer:
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Stress and Health
  • Journal of Adolescence
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Journal of Health Communication
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research – Formative Research
  • ​Addictive Behaviors

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