I'm in the intersection of the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, applied linguistics, and data science. Centrally, I’m a behavioral data scientist devoted to the investigation of human individual differences. I want to know which factors index particular cognitive states in order to evaluate human performance, discover which sorts of aptitude and experience may advantage someone for a particular sociotechnical context, and investigate how we can overcome inherent disadvantages with instructional or even brain stimulation interventions. I pursue these aims with advanced analytical techniques suited to these complex problem sets. As a client-focused Statistics Consultant, I have also helped researchers across various institutions with their data analysis needs, and my work has contributed to many peer-reviewed publications in high tier journals for those clients. I have led and contributed to a great number of diverse projects, and spearheaded experimental design and applied data analysis for a variety of clients, data types, and objectives. I have produced scientifically rigorous and reliable results as part of many collaborative teams.

Specialties: psychometrics, non-invasive brain stimulation, psychophysiological methods, applied linguistics, research & analysis, R, mixed-effects modeling, generalized additive mixed modeling

Degrees

  • PhD
    Second Language Acquisition; "Simply (neuro-)stimulating: The effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on phonological and lexical tone learning indexed by behavior and pupillometry"
  • MS
    Applied Linguistics; "Executive control in bilingualism: A preliminary investigation of language typology and task validity"
  • BA
    Spanish and Japanese Language and Culture
Research Methods
Non-invasive neuroimaging (eye-tracking/fMRI/EEG/MEG) and brain stimulation (tDCS/tACS)
Psychophysiology
Pupillometry
Linguistics
Data analysis
fMRI
Research Interests

Current Students

Former Students

Nick Pandza
UMD/ARLIS
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Email
npandza [at] umd.edu