Kathleen Gates , Ph.D.

Biography

Katie is a member of the Human Neuroimaging Group and affiliated faculty of the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC). She obtained her Ph.D. in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (quant focus) at Penn State, a Masters of Forensic Psychology at the City University of New York (John Jay College), and a BS in Psychology from Michigan State University. Katie’s work is motivated by problems in analyzing individual-level data. She develops algorithms and programs that may aid researchers in better quantifying behavioral, psychophysiological, and emotional processes across time. The end goal is to help researchers identify patterns within individuals so we can provide person-specific prevention, treatment, and intervention protocols as well as better understand the varied basic physiological underpinnings for emotions, cognition, and behaviors.

Katie and colleagues Sy-Miin Chow and Peter Molenaar wrote a book on conducting analyses of intensive longitudinal data. The motivation for writing the book was that the currently available texts on time series analyses were not always accessible. The book has an online supplement that provides freely available lectures and code (with data).