Department of Psychology
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Sarfaraz Serang
Title: | Assistant Professor |
Department: | Psychology Department College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | sserang@mailbox.sc.edu |
Resources: | Curriculum Vitae |

I'm an incoming Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University
of South Carolina, specifically within the Quantitative Psychology program. I received
my Ph.D. in (quantitative) psychology from the University of Southern California,
where I worked with Jack McArdle and Rand Wilcox. Prior to that, I did my undergraduate
work at the University of California, Davis, where I majored in psychology and statistics.
My research program involves developing and evaluating statistical methods for use
in the social sciences. My methodological interests include structural equation modeling,
longitudinal modeling, statistical learning (data mining/machine learning), and combinations
of the three. I collaborate with researchers from a wide range of disciplines to answer
all kinds of interesting research questions. For example, I've studied family dynamics
in substance use, cognitive ability and how it changes over time, and suicide risk
and nonsuicidal self-injury, just to name a few.