Christopher Urban
Assistant Professor Of Quantitative Psychology
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Urban is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Psychology at the University of Rhode Island with eight years of experience applying statistical and machine learning methods to social data. He earned a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology and an M.S. in Statistics from UNC Chapel Hill, where he also served as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and statistical consultant. Christopher builds and disseminates reproducible ML tools for social science questions, translating complex models into practical workflows for researchers. His background spans academic research, teaching, and consulting, and he brings uncommon cross-disciplinary breadth—from particle astrophysics research to teaching yoga—that informs his collaborative, human-centered approach to methodology.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Minor in Mathematics at Stony Brook UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Humanities and Social Sciences at Onondaga Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Quantitative Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Quantitative Psychology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (4)
r6
tensorflow6
iterative5
machine-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cjurban/deepirtools
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:315 commits, 262 pushes in 11 months
cjurban/DeepConfirmatoryIFA
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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