M.S. candidate
Gabriella Cantu
Dyadic facial description and matching accuracy.
People
The people who make the science happen
A research lab is its people. These are the graduate and undergraduate researchers of the MAP Lab — past and present — who have shaped this work, earned their own place in it, and carried it onward.
Current graduate students
M.S. candidate
Jasmine R. Nichols
Facial-recognition technology and policing.
Graduate alumni · thesis
M.S. 2026
Matthew D. Guerra
Intellectual humility and political cognition.
M.S. 2025
Jasmyne Thomas
Social comparison, stress, and belonging among undergraduates at a Hispanic-majority institution.
3MT · 2nd place
M.S. 2025
Nathan H. Wieters
How do dual tasks affect ID verification? A mobile eye-tracking analysis.
M.S. 2025
Roman M. Pardo
Going gray too early? The effects of color on facial identification.
Graduate researchers & collaborators
- Jordan Reiss
- C. R. Williams
- E. Daggett
- B. White
- A. R. Jones
- O. Hitchcock
Undergraduate researchers
Eighty and counting
Since 2016, more than 80 undergraduate researchers have trained in the MAP Lab — co-authoring 15+ peer-reviewed papers, presenting at national conferences, and going on to graduate and professional programs across the country. The researchers below are among those who earned authorship on published work.
Published undergraduate co-authors
- A. Rodriguez
- D. Aranda
- A. Morquecho
- A. Acosta
- I. Castellanos
- A. Halperin
- J. Arguello
- L. G. Martinez
- D. Roberson
- L. V. Esparza
- L. Tedder
- M. E. Walker
- B. Schein
- S. Gooding
- S. Matias
- C. Sullivan
- A. Wicks
- A. Raya
- W. Luo
- E. Eche
This roster is generated from _data/people/ — easily expanded to the full lab family. Former MAP researcher and want to be listed (or updated)? Send a note.