Jess Mankewitz
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJess Mankewitz is a developmental psychologist and computational researcher who combines experimental work on infant and toddler curiosity with strong data-science and modeling skills. With eight years of experience across Stanford, UW–Madison, and UC Berkeley, she specializes in cleaning and integrating messy multimodal datasets, building statistical and computational models in R and Python, and visualizing complex developmental patterns. She has managed and standardized large cross-lab databases (including CHILDES and eye-tracking corpora) to enable novel comparative analyses of language and learning. Early IT experience at SpaceX and leadership of a campus tech team give her uncommon pragmatism for scaling research infrastructure and tools. Currently a PhD student in psychology at UW–Madison and a research assistant at Stanford, she bridges theory and reproducible computation to ask new questions about how children seek information.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Cognitive Science, Bachelor's degree, Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (36)
r-package9
pycharm8
rscript8
linguistics8
experimental-design7
neuroscience7
sbml7
psychology7
experiment7
science6
vscode6
psychopy6
cognitive-science6
electrophysiology6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vboyce/AA-flowers
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 4 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 months
JMankewitz/baby-info
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
An eyetracking experiment measuring toddlers' sensitivity to informativity
Contributions:12 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
eye-tracking
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