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Ruoqian Wu

Ruoqian Wu ｜吴若谦

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rw41@illinois.edu

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  • 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 second-year M.S. 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 expect to graduate in Spring 2026 and will begin my Ph.D. in Quantitative methods at UIUC in Fall 2026.

My current research interests include:

  1. Factor analysis, especially methods for evaluating dimensionality and measurement structures in behavioral data.
  2. Machine learning based methodological development in behavioral research, with a focus on developing and evaluating new methods to address real world measurement and modeling challenges.
  3. Applied statistical modeling and collaboration, including working with scholars to analyze complex data and answer challenging research questions in applied settings.