Jeffrey R. Spies

Basics

I am currently a graduate student in the Quantitative Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia. I have my MA in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, while I was in their Joint Ph.D. program in Quantitative Psychology and Computer Science; I was also the lab manager of the Lab for the Quantitative Investigation of Human Dynamics. My primary advisor is Steven M. Boker, Ph.D. Our lab is now called the Human Dynamics Laboraty.

I am a LIFE Fellow (more later).

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Ph.D.

Quantitative Psychology, TBA
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Masters of Arts

Quantitative Psychology, December 2007
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (advisor Steven M. Boker)
Thesis: Local Sequence Alignment as a Method to Detect Temporal Patterns in Behavioral Data

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science, Second Major: Psychology, Cum Laude, May 2004
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Faces in Conversation (2005-Present)

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HDTreeV (2005-Present)

HDTreeV (High Dimensional Tree Visualization) is an open source, multidimensional visualization tool that will be going online shortly. It was originally named TreeView and won the SGI Award for Computational Science and Visualization in 2005; the project submission can be found here.

Local Sequence Alignment (2008-Present)

This was work I did for my Masters. More later.

Video Conferencing Software (2008-Present)

This is software that we wrote that allows for high-presence, (extremely) low-bandwidth, apparent 3D video conferencing with a single camera. Through the UVA Patent Foundation, we secured a provisional patent and have since then applied for a full patent.

OpenAutism (2003-Present)

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OpenMx (2007-Present)

I am one of the core developers of OpenMx, a free, open source structural equation modeling software package for R. I am the lead programmer on the graphical user interface and the community website/tools.

Infant Motor Ability and Tool Use (2009-Present)

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Motor Control and Autism (2008-Present)

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Other

ToBioGraphics: This is a freely available utlity I wrote to parse and convert gene prediction output (genscan, geneid, and fgenesh) to be used in the Bio::Graphics module, a really great sequence feature visualization tool. An online version of the Bio:Graphics module is Wormbase's Sequence Feature Renderer. I used this renderer in a bioinformatics project and discovered that people generally do this conversion by hand (sometimes taking hours to do).

Co-authors

Kathleen Ashenfelter, Paul Baltes, Colin Bauer, Steve Boker, Sy-Miin Chow, Jeff Cohn, Kathy Eberhard, Matthew Lerner, Ulman Lindenberger, Shu-Chen Li, Gitta Lubke, Matthias Scheutz, Rob West

Labmates

Steven Boker (advisor), Tim Brick, Michael Hunter.

Other Collaborators

These are people that I have the pleasure of collaborating with on a regular basis, but have not (yet) published with.

Monica Erbacher, Ryne Estabrook, Rachel Keen, John Nesselroade

This is really, really geeky, but I enjoy it:

Wilhelm Wundt → Charles Spearman → Raymond B. Cattell → John R. Nesselroade → Steven M. Boker → ?

• Email address: jspies at virginia dot edu
• Webpage: http://people.virginia.edu/~js6ew/
• Office: 210 Millmont

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