Data Assistant

KYLE S. LOVSETH

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Phone/Email 785-***-**** / ****.*******@*****.***

Citizenship United States

Objective:

Collect, analyze, and report results of data in an applied setting; assist others in conducting statistical analyses; write automated programs to increase efficiency and reduce human error in data analysis

Education

2012 M.S., Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC

2007 B.G.S., with honors in Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Professional Experience

2008-2012 Graduate Researcher, McGill University

• Worked both independently, and in a collaborative environment

• Research projects involving cognitive and neural bases of written and spoken language processing, with a focus on idioms and figurative language

• Devoted to keeping up with the latest trends in technology and statistical techniques for my respective field

• Demonstrated expertise in eye-tracking research, experimental design, scientific writing, data collection, database manipulation and management, complex data analysis, Bayesian statistics, mixed-models, and graphical representation of data

• Wrote software programs and manuals for colleagues that were designed to automate complex data analyses

• Often worked with multiple data sets at once, spanning a wide variety of topics

• Frequently assisted colleagues in analyzing data distinct from my own in a timely manner, while answering questions they had about the analyses and data

• Member of Montreal R Users Group (www.meetup.com/Montreal-R-User-Group), and regular attendee of sponsored statistical workshops

2006-2008 Research Assistant for Dr. Ruth Ann Atchley, University of Kansas

• Organized weekly lab meetings

• Worked independently, with minimal supervision

• In charge of keeping lab supplies stocked, general upkeep of lab, and making sure all data was backed-up

• Research focused on semantic access in lateralized brain hemispheres evoked by pictures, affect of depression on brain response to emotional words, affect of fibromyalgia on brain response to words with painful connotation

• Proficiency developed in experimental design, data acquisition using electroencephalography (EEG), and scientific writing

Software Experience: Data Analysis Experience:

Microsoft Office Suite Linear Mixed-Effect Regression

R Project for Statistical Computing Complex regression modeling

SAS Bayesian Statistics

SPSS Principle Components Analysis

Matlab Structured Equation Modeling

Java ANOVA

Scholarship & Awards

$ 21,000 - NSERC-CREATE Graduate Fellowship (2011) McGill University

$ 21,000 - NSERC-CREATE Graduate Fellowship (2010) McGill University

$5,000 - UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp Scholarship (2009) McGill University

First Author Peer-Reviewed Publications

Lovseth, K., & Titone, D. (in revision ). First- and second-language idiom processing differentially involving? direct retrieval and decomposition: Evidence from eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language.

Lovseth, K., de la Parra, L., Wagner, M., & Titone, D. A. (2011). Familiarity and decomposability modulate the prosodic realization of figuratively vs. literally intended idioms during natural speech production. In Proceedings of the Ninth Edition of the International Seminar on Speech Production. Montreal, Canada. Pp. 377-384.

Lovseth, K., & Atchley, R.A. (2010). Examining lateralized semantic access using pictures. Brain & Cognition, 2. 202-209.

Selected Presentations

Lovseth, K., de la Parra, L., Wagner, M., & Titone, D. A. (2011). The prosodic realization of idioms intended figuratively or literally. Oral presentation at the 2011 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop, Montreal, Canada.

Lovseth, K., & Titone, D. (2010). How and when are idioms directly retrieved or compositionally analyzed in comprehension: Evidence from eye movements during reading. Oral presentation at Cognitive/Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar, Montreal, Canada.

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