Education

Ph.D. Student

Master of Education

  • Guangzhou University, 2016 Sep-2020 Jun
  • Specialization: Applied Psychology
  • Master thesis: Developmental trajectories of callous-unemotional traits: Longitudinal associations with parenting stress and parenting behaviours in Chinese community children
  • Supervisor: Dr Mengcheng Wang

Bachelor of Science

  • Guangzhou University, 2012 Sep-2016 Jun
  • Specialization: Psychology
  • Bachelor thesis: The relationship between psychopathy and the five-factor model
  • Supervisor: Dr Mengcheng Wang

Honors and Academic Awards

  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded studentship (Mar 2024)
  • Outstanding student of Guangdong Province in 2020 (Apr 2020)
  • Outstanding graduates of Guangzhou University in 2020 (May 2020)
  • The National Scholarship in 2019 (Nov 2019)
  • Scholarship for abroad as a joint graduate student (Jun 2018)
  • Second prize scholarship of School of Education at Guangzhou University (Oct 2018)
  • The National Scholarship in 2017 (Nov 2017)
  • First prize scholarship of School of Education at Guangzhou University (Oct 2017)
  • Second prize scholarship of School of Education at Guangzhou University (Oct 2016)
  • Second prize of essay activity of Psychology Sub-forum of Graduate Academic Forum of Guangzhou University (Dec 2016)

Research Experience

Research fellow, Jul 2022-Jul 2024

  • The Centre for Psychometric and Latent Variable modeling, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
  • Principle Investigator: Dr Mengcheng Wang
  • Main Contributed Projects
    • Developing risk assessment tools using ML in offenders
    • Online assessments platform management

Visiting student, Dec 2018-Dec 2019

  • Psychophysiology Lab at Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
  • Principle Investigator: Dr Yu Gao

Research assistant, May 2015-Apr 2021

  • The Centre for Psychometric and Latent Variable Modeling, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
  • Principle Investigator: Dr Mengcheng Wang
  • Responsibilities: Data collection and analysis, Manuscript and research report writing.
  • Main Contributed Projects
    • Risk assessment in psychiatric prisoners, Guangdong, China.
    • A longitudinal study in schoolchildren using multi-informant approach, Guangdong, China.
    • Developing measure for burden and physical-mental facets in youth, Chongqing, China.

Conferences and Presentations

  1. Deng, J., Wang, M., Shou, Y., Gao, Y., Allen, J. & Hawes, D. (Apr 2023). Cross-cultural Network Analysis of Callous-Unemotional Traits in Four International Youth Samples. Oral presentation at the meeting of Guangzhou Psychological Association. Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
  2. Deng, J., Wang, M., Gao, Y. & Shou, Y. (May 2019). Parenting Behaviors and Child Psychopathy: A Regression Mixture Analysis. Poster presented at the 8th biennial meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. Las Vegas, USA.
  3. Deng, J., Zhang, X., Gao, Y., Wang, M. & Shou, Y. (Nov 2017). The Utility of Limited Prosocial Emotion: Meta-analysis and reliability generalization of the Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits. Oral presentation at Guangzhou-Hong Kong Graduate Forum 2017. Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
  4. Deng, J., Zhang, X., Gao, Y., Wang, M. & Shou, Y. (Nov 2017). The Utility of Limited Prosocial Emotion: Meta-analysis and reliability generalization of the Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits. Oral presentation at the 20th National Psychology Conference. Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
  5. Deng, J. & Wang, M. (Jul 2017). The relations between psychopathy and the Five-Factor Model. Oral presentation at International Postgraduate Roundtable and Research Forum cum Summer School 2017. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Workshops Presentations

  1. Deng, J. (2023). Meta-analysis and Reliability Generalization Workshop. 22 Mar, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
  2. Deng, J. (2023). Network psychometrics Workshop. 9 Mar, Virtual.
  3. Wang, M-C., Deng, J. (2022). Network psychometrics Workshop. 19 June, Virtual.
  4. Wang, M-C., Deng, J. (2022). Reliability Generalization Workshop. 16 July, Changsha, China.

Work Experience

Data Analyst in Educational Assessment, Apr 2021-June 2022

  • Jingwei Reading Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
  • Analyzing data and interpreting results using statistics techniques especially psychometric testing

Psychology teacher (Internship), Sep 2015-Dec 2015

  • Guangzhou Tianhe Middle School, Guangzhou, China
  • Supervisor: Yang Yang, B.S. (Psychology teacher)

Social worker (Internship), May 2015-Aug 2015

  • Guangzhou QiChuang Social Work Service Centre, Guangzhou, China.
  • Supporting services for social reintegration for drug users, preventive education & anti-drug publicity
  • Supervisor: Wang Jing, B.S. (Senior social worker)

Qualifications and Skills

Statistical and programming skills

  • R programming (as primary tools for analysis), Mplus, SPSS, E-prime, SQL (Basic)
  • Data cleaning and wrangling, data visualisation.
  • Structural Equation Modelling
  • Psychometrics (e.g., Item analysis, Factor Analysis)
  • Network Analysis in R (e.g., qgraph, bootnet, NetworkComparisonTest)
  • Meta-Analysis (e.g., reliability generalization using metafor)
  • Machine Learning and prediction (e.g., Random Forests, Neural Network, ROC curve).

Language Acquisition

  • English/Mandarin/Cantonese