About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, where I direct the Motivation and Self-Regulation Lab. My goal is to empower people to be strategic—and hence, effective—in pursuing important goals.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Social Psychology from The University of Michigan, and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University. My expertise is in mindsets, self-regulation, and social-psychological interventions. I am a recipient of the National Research Foundation Fellowship - an early career award bestowed by the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore.
Lab Research Interests and Expertise
How do high-achieving students, productive employees, or top-notch athletes achieve success? Our goal is to identify the mindsets and behaviors that make them effective, and to harness this knowledge to help many more people succeed at their goals.
Our research aims to support effective goal pursuit by:
(1) identifying the mindsets and behaviors that foster strategic learning, performance, and well-being,
(2) leveraging multiple methods (lab experiments, survey methods, and field RCTs) to empirically establish the processes by which they work, and
(3) designing scalable, psychologically precise interventions to promote the adoption of adaptive mindsets and behaviors.