Wenjing Huang is a senior psychometrician at RAND. She specializes in developing standardized assessment tools for measuring mental health, substance use, skills, knowledge and aptitudes related issues in health, education, and workplace settings.
Her work at RAND covers a diverse range from health research funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to personnel management such as Worker Well-Being funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC NIOSH). She co-led a high-profile report on Asia Drug Policy, modeled mental health and behavioral issues among youth in the Middle East experiencing war trauma and contributed to creating standard measures for evaluating national and international policies in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as mapping global space governance of key stakeholders. Recently, she has been working on disaster relief for FEMA and border security for DHS while leading a project on measuring human factors related to cyber security.
Before joining RAND, Wenjing interned at the World Health Organization (WHO). She started her psychometrics training with Patrick Curran in the Ph.D. program at L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory (UNC, Chapel Hill). She received her Ph.D. at UCLA working with Peter Bentler on estimation algorithms for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
Ph.D. in quantitative psychology, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. in quantitative psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; B.A. in education, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
