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Ruoqian Wu

Ruoqian Wu ｜吴若谦

Always looking for new ideas, collaborators. Feel free to reach out me :)

rw41@illinois.edu

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Updates

  • May 2026: Received the Outstanding Student Medal from the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • April 2026: A manuscript on factor retention in large factor analysis models was accepted by Educational and Psychological Measurement.
  • April 2026: Selected by the College of Education to be featured in an academic profile in The Illio Yearbook.
  • April 2026: Successfully defended my master’s thesis on factor retention methods for categorical data in large exploratory factor analysis models.
  • April 2026: Presented my research at the 2026 NCME Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.
  • February 2026: Accepted an offer to begin the Ph.D. program in Quantitative Methods at UIUC in Fall 2026.

Hello and welcome! I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the Quantitative Methods (QUERIES) program at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), where I work under the supervision of Prof. Yan Xia. I previously earned my M.S. in the same program at UIUC.

My current research interests include:

  1. Machine learning and structural equation modeling
  2. Developed and applied statistical methods for substantive behavioral research