Bio
Dr. Qiwei (Britt) He is Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Program of Data Science and Analytics and Director of AI-Measurement and Data Science Lab (AIMD) at Graduate School of Arts and Science in Georgetown University. She is also a faculty in the Massive Data Institute and affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Georgetown. Before joining Georgetown in 2023, Dr. He has been a Senior Research Scientist in the Advanced Psychometric and Data Science Modeling Center at Educational Testing Service (ETS) for over nine years, overseeing research on adaptive measurement modeling, innovative item type development, technology-based environment design, and sequential process data analyses in national and international large-scale assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as well as in K-12 education assessments and learning projects.
Dr. He was appointed as OECD Thomas J. Alexander Fellow in 2018 and has been serving on the Psychometrics and Educational Evaluation Panel for UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Policy Linking Panel for USAID since 2020. She also serves on the Board of Trustees in International Psychometric Society, the Executive Board of American Psychological Association (Division 5: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods) and co-chairs the Big Data SIGIMIE in the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). Dr. He was the recipient of the NCME Annual Award of Exceptional Achievement in 2023, the Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award in 2019, and the Alicia Cascallar Outstanding Paper of Early-Career Scholar Award in 2017 and the winner of Exemplary Paper Award in Adult Literacy and Education from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2023.