Meet the team!

Hyunyoung, who goes by Katie, is a doctoral candidate in the Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology program at Boston College. Her main research interests are children’s cognitive development and math knowledge. She is currently studying different predictors of children’s learning of arithmetic principles, specifically examining student and task characteristics. Her home is Seoul, Korea, but she has a lot of experience living in different cities growing up! She likes to travel, look for good coffee shops, and collect stationery items.

Julia Muanjing Wang received her BA in Psychology from New York University and an M.E. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on how contextual factors influence young children’s cognitive development, such as home experiences and preschool education. Her current project looks at how specific features of a self-designed storybook influence parental math input during parent-child interaction. Julia enjoys cooking, baking, and traveling in her free time, and she is a huge coffee lover!

Jiwon, pronounced “G1”, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019, with her BS in Psychology and a minor in Hispanic Studies. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a lab manager for two years in Dr. Robert S. Siegler’s lab at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she gained an interest in improving numerical magnitude knowledge in middle school students. Currently, her research interests are focused on how early education teachers influence children’s math learning. In addition to research, Jiwon enjoys going to Crossfit and spending time with her dog, Otis!