Daniel R. Cavagnaro
email:
dcavagnaro@fullerton.edu
office: SGMH 4184
phone: (657) 278-5249
Office Hours: M: 4:00pm -
6:00pm; TR:11:00am - 12:00pm and by appointment
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of
California Irvine, 2007
M.A. in Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
B.S. with Honors in Mathematics (Philosophy minor), Santa Clara
University, 2002
Research and Teaching Interests
Decision theory (normative and behavioral), experimental economics, mathematical modeling, machine learning, Bayesian analytics, Probability and statistics for the behavioral sciences and management
Previous Positions
2010 - 2011, Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Department of Psychology
2008 - 2010, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Ohio State University, Department of Psychology
2007 - 2008, NRSA Fellow in Quantitative Methods for Behavioral Research, National Institute of Mental Health Training Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Selected Publications
Cavagnaro, D. R., Pitt, M. A., Gonzalez, R., & Myung, I. J. (in press). Discriminating Among Probability Weighting Functions with Adaptive Design optimization. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
Cavagnaro, D. R., Gonzalez, R., Myung, I. J. & Pitt, M. A. (2013). Optimal Stimuli for Decision Making Experiments: An Adaptive Approach. Management Science, 59(2), 358-375.
Cavagnaro, D.R.,
Pitt, M.A., & Myung, J.I. (2011).
Model Discrimination
through Adaptive Experimentation. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 18(1), 204-210.
Cavagnaro, D.R.,
Myung, J.I, Pitt, M.A. & Kujala, J.V. (2010).
Adaptive
Design Optimization: A Mutual Information Based Approach to
Model Discrimination in Cognitive Science. Neural
Computation, 22(4), 887-905.
Cavagnaro, D.R.,
Pitt, M.A. & Myung, J.I. (2010).
Adaptive Design
Optimization in Experiments with People. Advances in
Neural Information Processing Systems, 22, 234-242. MIT
Press.
Regenwetter, M., Grofman, B.,
Popova, A., Messner,W., Davis-Stober, C.P. & Cavagnaro,
D.R. (2008). Behavioural social choice: a status
report. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society
B, 364(1518), 833-843.
Cavagnaro, D.R.
(2007).
Projection of a medium. Journal of
Mathematical Psychology, 52(1), 55-63.
Working Papers
Cavagnaro, D.R. and Davis-Stober, C.P. (under revision) Transitive in our preferences but transitive in different ways: An analysis of choice variability.
Myung, J.I.,
Cavagnaro, D.R. & Pitt, M.A. (under revision).
Tutorial on Adaptive
Design Optimization.
Book Chapters
Cavagnaro, D.R., Myung, J.I. & Ptt, M.A. (2013) Mathematical Modeling. In T.A. Little, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Quantitative Methods, Vol. 1. Oxford University Press.
Cavagnaro, D.R. (in press). Computational Approaches to Model Evaluation. In J.D. Wright, e.d., The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Elsevier.
Courses
- ISDS 361A
- All course materials posted on TITANium
