I work at the seam between psychological measurement and machine learning — building datasets, benchmarks and evaluations for systems that make claims about human behavior.

I’m an Associate Professor of Psychology and Data Science at the University of Kansas, where I direct the Affective Communication and Computing Lab. I trained as a clinical psychologist — PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2018 — and my research is about measuring things that resist measurement: emotion, clinical state, the texture of a conversation.

That work has appeared in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and Affective Science, and it has produced open-source tools that other researchers use.

Through Girard Consulting I bring the same standards to applied work — dataset and benchmark design, model evaluation and generative psychometrics for teams building systems that reason about people. I’m also a co-founder of SMaRT Workshops and Principal Scientist at Fluid Concepts Research.