Doctoral Students — Media Psychology
David Barnstone
dbarnsto@stanford.edu
David Barnstone's CV
Barnstone studies the dynamics of media use in families with young children. He is particularly interested in understanding the influence of media exposure during infancy on child development and parental wellbeing.
Yikun Chi
Chi is interested in leveraging media consumption and mobile sensing data and deep learning for the detection and prediction of mental well-being related issues.
Cyan DeVeaux
cyanjd@stanford.edu
CV for Cyan DeVeaux
DeVeaux is interested in augmented and virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and human-centered design.
Bingxu Han
bingxu9@stanford.edu
Bingxu Han's CV
Bingxu explores in the intersection of communication, psychology, and health. She is interested in harnessing technology-mediated communication to facilitate (mental) health support and help individuals navigate challenging psychological scenarios.
Zhenchao Hu
Zhenchao is interested in (intensive) longitudinal methods, social media uses and effects, interpersonal relationships, children and adolescents' identity development, sexuality, and well-being.
Angela Lee
Lee is interested in understanding the impact of media and technology on users’ health and well-being by studying psychological processes such as mindsets, particularly in the context of adolescent and parent-child relationships.
Michelle Ng
michelleng@stanford.edu
Michelle Ng's CV
Ng examines how individuals act upon dynamic risk communication to protect their well-being during extreme weather events. By leveraging intensive longitudinal methods and collaborating with government and community partners, she aims to develop risk communication theory while building resilience to extreme weather in practice.
Rinseo Park
rinseo@stanford.edu
Rinseo Park's CV
Park is interested in understanding how individual decision-making diverges from policy actors’ (e.g., political elites or scientific experts) views and the underlying cognitive processes.
Monique Santoso
mtsantoso@stanford.edu
Monique Santoso's CV
Santoso is interested in the social, psychological, and behavioral implications of virtual reality, particularly in the context of climate and sustainability.
Serena Soh
Soh is interested in understanding how identity development unfolds in the digital context, particularly in terms of how digital interventions can be designed to promote positive identity development.
Noah Vinoya
avhoah@stanford.edu
Noah Vinoya's CV
Vinoya is interested in how digital media can be leveraged as a tool to understand human behavior in a more natural context. Particularly, media habits can be captured to help unveil aspects of personality expression, well-being, and life outcomes.
Portia Wang
portiaw@stanford.edu
Portia Wang's CV
Portia is interested in building up a theoretical framework towards understanding the role of personalized immersive technologies in supporting social and creative processes. She hopes to develop personalized tools for facilitating social interactions and the creative process in virtual and augmented reality and characterize how individuals and groups utilize these tools over time.