About

Hsiu-Ting Yu (游琇婷) is Professor of Quantitative Psychology in the Department of Psychology at National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan, a Researcher at the NCCU Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, and head of the Psychometrics and Quantitative Methods Lab. Her research develops and evaluates statistical and psychometric methods for psychological science, with particular attention to multilevel and latent variable models, psychometric network modeling, intensive longitudinal data, research synthesis, and the quality of psychological measurement.

She received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, where she also earned an M.S. in Statistics and an M.A. in Psychology. Before joining NCCU in 2016, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Leiden University and the Inter-University Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS) in the Netherlands, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at McGill University in Canada from 2009 to 2016.

Her doctoral work was recognized with the APA Division 5 Distinguished Dissertation Award and the AERA Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award, both in 2008. At NCCU she has received the Award of Outstanding Excellence in Research (2023), the Outstanding Teaching Award (2023), and the Excellent Mentor Award (2020). She served as Associate Editor of Psychometrika from 2019 to 2023 and currently serves as Associate Editor of Behaviormetrika and of the Chinese Journal of Psychology.

Beyond journal articles, she writes books. Three open-access web textbooks are available in English and Traditional Chinese, on longitudinal and dynamic data analysis and on quantitative psychology, and two further books are in preparation with publishers in Taiwan. She also maintains the umg R package, a unified graphical grammar for drawing statistical models.

Honors and awards

• Research Subsidy Incentive, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), multiple years, 2019–2024
• Best Reviewer Award, Chinese Journal of Psychology, 2021 and 2024
• Award of Outstanding Excellence in Research, National Chengchi University, 2023
• Outstanding Teaching Award, National Chengchi University, 2023
• Excellent Mentor Award, National Chengchi University, 2020
• Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Faculty of Science, National Chengchi University, 2019
• APA Division 5 Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2008
• AERA Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award, 2008
• Psychometric Society–ETS Student Travel Award, 2007

Editorial service

• Associate Editor, Chinese Journal of Psychology 中華心理學刊, 2025–present
• Associate Editor, Behaviormetrika, 2017–present
• Associate Editor, Psychometrika, 2019–2023
• Editorial Board, Psychological Testing 測驗學刊, 2022–present
• Editorial Board, Formosa Journal of Mental Health 中華心理衛生學刊, 2023–present
• Editorial Board, Journal of Educational Practice and Research 教育實踐與研究, 2026–present
• Editorial Board, Archives of Clinical Psychology 臨床心理學刊, 2017–2023

Professional service

• Communications Committee and Social Media Editor, Psychometric Society, 2017–2025
• Program Committee, Psychometric Society, 2020–2021
• Quantitative Dissertation Award Committee, American Educational Research Association, 2015–2018
• Committee Member, Taiwan Psychological Society, 2023–2026
• Reviewer and evaluation panel member, MOST/NSTC research grants, 2017–present
• Member, Psychometric Society (2004–present) and Taiwan Psychological Society (2016–present)