With over 700 posters submitted, Lavanya Shravan Kumar's Master’s thesis poster was selected as among the top 10 Poster at this year’s national Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Conference.
Lavanya is a third-year doctoral student in I-O Psychology at USF working under the guidance of Dr. Stephen Stark. Her research interests are in psychometrics and item response theory, specifically, in topics such as measurement invariance and dimensionality of forced-choice measures and corresponding applications. She is also interested in applications of newer machine learning methods in testing and assessment. She earned her M.S. in I-O Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology in 2020 and her Master’s thesis was recently published in Personnel Psychology.