Summary
Chunyun Ma is a research psychologist and consultant with eight years of experience designing experiments, running human-participant studies, and translating behavioral data into actionable insights for industry and academia. Skilled in R and applied statistics, she teaches graduate-level applied statistics and publishes open educational materials to broaden access to data science. Her work spans human factors in aviation, driving, maritime navigation, VR training for first responders, and healthcare usability, blending rigorous experimental methods with stakeholder-driven project coordination. She excels at teasing structure out of noisy behavioral datasets and communicating findings to both technical and non-technical audiences. A former postdoc and multi-time course instructor at Carleton University, she pairs deep domain expertise with a practitioner’s focus on client-facing recommendations. Outside formal roles she’s an educator and statistics geek who enjoys mentoring students and promoting reproducible, open research.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Experimental Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Experimental Psychology at Carleton University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Experimental Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Experimental Psychology at Zhejiang University