Group: SuperPower ~ Our Team

Our Team

Principal Investigators & Co-Investigators

Erin Hennes

Principle Investigator

Dr. Erin Hennes is an Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences and Political Science at Purdue University and the director of both the Social Cognition of Social Justice Lab and the SuperPower Project. Dr. Hennes is also a faculty affiliate of the Purdue Center for the Environment and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. Dr. Hennes holds a BA in Music, Psychology, and Liberal Arts & Management from Indiana University and a PhD in Social Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Methods from New York University. Following graduation, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

ehennes@missouri.edu

Sean Lane

Principle Investigator

Dr. Sean Lane’s substantive research focuses on emotion regulation processes, their downstream effects on health and relationship outcomes, and how these processes differ between healthy and clinical subgroups. He applies and develops statistical methodologies, with a focus on nonlinear models and dynamic systems in characterizing these processes. He has also applied these methods in more substantive research, including the optimization of alcohol use disorder classification and the role of alcohol use as an antecedent, consequent, and modifier of emotion regulation processes.

His recent quantitative work on the mpower project (R01AA027264) involves developing methods for conducting power analyses for complex statistical models, including providing recommendations for starting parameters and feasible ranges under uncertainty. These methods are actively being built into an intuitive user interface guided by principles from user-centered design.

lanesp@missouri.edu

Carol Song

Co Investigator

Carol Song is a senior research scientist and director of Scientific Solutions in Research Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University. She received her PhD degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her main research interest focuses on advanced computational and data cyberinfrastructure, having researched in high-performance and distributed computing and led the creation of multiple science gateways (web-based collaborative research platforms). Carol is the Principal Investigator for Purdue’s Anvil national capacity HPC system recently awarded by NSF and has been leading Purdue’s participation in the TeraGrid & XSEDE projects since 2006. She also leads two large data infrastructure projects funded by NSF’s DIBBs and CSSI programs. Carol has funded and mentored more than 60 graduate and undergraduate students over the years and serves as a mentor through programs such as Women in HPC, Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing and Supercomputing conferences. She is a co-investigator in the Superpower project, guiding the project to utilize innovative cyberinfrastructure in delivering highly usable and scalable data analysis and visualization capabilities.

cxsong@purdue.edu

Lan Zhao

Co Investigator

Lan Zhao is a research scientist in research computing at Purdue University. She has many years of experience with advanced computing and software development. She served in an architect role in multiple funded projects to create collaborative CI solutions enabling interdisciplinary research and education in the areas of climate modeling, hydrology, agricultural economics, isotope modeling, and sustainability engineering. She led the design and development of several science gateways that enable scientific modeling and simulation tools, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) science cyber training, and data management solutions for streaming high-resolution radar data, real-time satellite images, plant health sensor data, and heterogeneous environmental data. She is also an XSEDE ECSS (Extended Collaborative Support Services) consultant in multiple science gateway projects ranging from using biomechanical imaging modeling to detect tissue deformation to running hydrologic watershed models on XSEDE in support of classroom users.

lanzhao@purdue.edu

Graduate Research Assistants

Katelyn Wasson

Katelyn Wasson is a 1st year Quantitative Psychology graduate student at the University of Missouri. She joined the mpower Lab in 2021. She earned her BS in Applied Statistics and Brain and Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University. As a graduate student at Mizzou, she is interested in psychometrics and its applications in psychopathology and educational measurement. She is also involved in Dr. Erin Hennes's MPower Lab. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music (anything rock & pop!), running & hiking, and all things crafts (embroidery, sewing, collaging - the list goes on).

kwxwt@missouri.edu

Mairéad Willis

Mairéad Willis is a PhD student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Missouri. She was previously the mpower Project Coordinator from 2019 to 2021. She holds a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior with a minor in Irish Language and Literature from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in Creative Writing from the National University of Ireland, Cork. She is interested in social emotion regulation processes across the lifespan, including emotion socialization, emotion co-regulation, and social learning of emotion regulation strategies.

mwfcb@missouri.edu

Skye Napolitano

Skye Napolitano joined the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Purdue University in Fall 2019. There, she works with Dr. Sean Lane in the REACT Lab and began working on his and Dr. Hennes’ mpower project in May 2020. Skye earned her M.A. in Clinical Psychology at Cleveland State University in 2018, where she worked in the Mood and Emotion Regulation Lab with Dr. Ilya Yaroslavsky, studying emotion regulation and trajectories of depression in families. Previously, she earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Statistics at the University of Wyoming in 2014. Her primary research interests include emotion regulation in mood and substance use disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder, psychophysiological and EMA assessment of emotion regulation processes, and transmission, development, and maintenance factors of mood and personality psychopathology.

snapolit@purdue.edu

Staff

Tongyao Ran

Project coordinator

Ran is the project coordinator for mpower Lab. She earned her bachelor's degree in Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University and her Master's degree in counseling at Johns Hopkins University. Her goal is to pursue a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and become a clinical scientist after graduation.

trdvv@missouri.edu

I Luk Kim, PhD

Software Engineer

I Luk Kim is a senior computational scientist in Research Computing department at Purdue University, also a PhD student in Computer Science at Purdue University. I Luk received a BE in Computer Software from Kwangwoon University in 2010, and a ME in Information Security from Korea University in 2012. He is interested in web and system security using program analysis techniques.

kim1634@purdue.edu

Madeline Peyton

Madeline Peyton is a Master's student in Biostatistics at IUPUI. Madeline graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor’s in Applied Statistics in 2021. She has been a member of the SuperPower Laboratory since 2020. Madeline hopes to use her passion and knowledge of statistics to make an impact on the public health industry, specifically within Alzheimer’s research. Upon graduation, she plans to pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry.

lonis@purdue.edu