Lab Leadership
J. Mark Eddy – Director
J. Mark Eddy is the Margie Gurley Seay Centennial Professor in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds appointments in the Department of Educational Psychology and the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. As a prevention scientist and clinical psychologist, he leads efforts to develop and rigorously test prevention and intervention programs intended to benefit children and families, and particularly those who are living in stressful circumstances. His recent work centers on the conduct of randomized controlled trials of multimodal interventions in partnership with school systems, the juvenile justice system, the adult corrections system, the child welfare system, and the military, as well as with nonprofits that work with these and related systems.
Xiao Liu – Associate Director
Xiao Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology within the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. As a methodologist, her research interests have evolved along three interrelated areas: (1) mediation analyses, (2) causal inference methods, and (3) longitudinal and/or clustered data analyses. Her recent research addresses important methodological problems in causal mediation analysis and causal inference with complex clustered data. Substantively, she uses her quantitative expertise to help rigorously examine research questions about prevention and intervention programs for children and families, attending to contextual factors related to home, schools, and communities, among others. In the long run, she will focus on the development and applications of rigorous statistical methods for designing intervention trials, analyzing complex data, and improving causal inference.