Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Jason Yang received his PhD in Kinesiology at Penn State University with a focus on psychology of physical activity and completed a postdoctoral research fellow working in the Real-Time Eating Activity and Children's Health Laboratory at the University of Southern California. Dr. Yang has research interests in utilizing Ecological Momentary Assessment/Ambulatory Assessment to understand the dynamics of health behavior change and maintenance in naturalistic settings. He also applies novel data capture methods and advanced statistical approaches to modeling intensive longitudinal data generated from mobile devices.