Biography
Dr. Lu Liang, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, specializing in Psychometrics in 2016. Her professional background includes data analysis, research, course development, and teaching. She has been an assistant teaching professor in Department of Psychology at FIU since 2016 and promoted to associate teaching professor in 2022.
From 2009, Dr. Liang started dedicating herself to data analysis. She has extensive data analysis experiences in collaborating with different professors and scholars, working in different labs as research assistant, and helping numerous Ph.D. candidates with their data analysis in dissertations. Her data analysis area includes categorical regression, scale development, data simulation using R, etc.
In 2016, Dr. Liang becomes major Research Methods instructor in Department of Psychology at FIU. Over the next six years, she taught different formats of Research Methods I and II courses, including fully in-person, fully online, hybrid, hyflex, and remote. She assists the department for improving RM curriculum and updating course materials every year, participated in the developing plan for a new two-semester research methods sequence, developed hybrid teaching modality and short-term version for Research Methods I course, and works with colleagues on polishing course design and updating course materials every semester.