Maryalice Wu

Maryalice is the Director of Data Analytics at the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Illinois and has been working in statistical consulting at the University since 1999. Her recent research focuses on the economic and health empowerment of women in developing nations. Her other projects relate to program evaluations in academia, including research on the impact of MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses). She has taught several courses at Illinois, including Introduction to Social Statistics (SOC 280) and Social Research Methods (Soc 380).

Dawn Owens

Dawn is the Senior Data and Survey Scientist at CITL and the University's official representative to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). She has an M.A. in Sociology from Illinois and has worked in the data group (and its former incarnations) in various capacities since 1989. She manages learning analytics data from several sources, helps administers several campus surveys, and provides social science data to members of the university community. She also provides consulting on data management and programming.

Kit Santa Ana

Since graduating from Illinois with a B.A. in Economics, Kathleen has taken on the role of Data & Survey Scientist in the Data Analytics unit of CITL. This role focuses on cleaning and coding data for analysis, producing recurring summary statistical reports, and programming online data collection tools. She has a well-working knowledge of SPSS, Python, LaTeX, XML, and their various applications in streamlining data cleaning and reporting. She also has experience in managing and harmonizing datasets across multiple time points (longitudinal and milestone data), multiple survey revisions, and multiple modes of implementation.

Paige Cunningham

Paige is the Postdoctoral Research Associate with CITL's Data Analytics group. She has both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Library and Information Science and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies. At CITL, she works on data collection, preparation, management, and documentation for a variety of projects including online program evaluation and Illinois’ Coursera learning analytics assessment. She is also part of the Illini Success data analysis team shared between CITL and the Career Center.

Deli Yang

Marian Pan

Yueyang Chen 

Yueyang Chen is a PhD candidate in industrial/organizational psychology. His expertise lies in survey design, data manipulation, psychometric validation, and predictive model building. He is currently a research science fellow at a top consulting firm and enjoys problem solving on topics related to longitudinal research design, measurement and data visualization.