Jay Hyung Lee

Alumni - Capstone Student and Undergraduate Student Research Assistant 

After freshly declaring myself as a Psychology major in my sophomore year, I joined the Teaching, Learning, and Development Lab as a student assistant. I was tasked to clean and organize heart rate variability (HRV) data, which was collected for various emotion regulation research projects. Working on the various projects with lab members was influential in my academic journey. Not only did I acquire a degree of expertise on my research interests in HRV within developmental psychology, but I also gained insight into the intricacies involved in producing meaningful research. The sum of research experiences I had in the lab also shaped my senior capstone project, which examined differing HRV analysis methodologies to observe parent-child physiological synchrony. The lab provided me with a wealth of opportunities to learn and grow as a burgeoning academic, such as presenting my capstone at the International Scientific Society of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) in Lisbon, Portugal. I now take all that I have learned from the lab to the next chapter of my academic career, training in applied behavior analysis, working with children on the autism spectrum, and continuing to conduct research in the developmental field.