People

Kimele Persaud

kimele.persaud@rutgers.edu

Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at CoCoDev

Dr. Persaud was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at our lab, and currently a professor in the psychology department of Rutgers university. Her research interests center on understanding visual working and long-term memory. Specifically, she employs...

Tatiana Schaefer

Originally from Miami, Florida, Tatiana has been in the Boston/ Cambridge area for the past 10 years. She attended Boston College for her undergraduate degree and received her Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) in...

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük

esra_kucuk@gse.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Prof. Elizabeth Bonawitz at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Esra received her B.A. with high honors in Psychology from Istanbul Sehir University, where she completed her senior...

Jinjing Jenny Wang

Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at CoCoDev

Jenny Wang was a Postdoctoral researcher fellow and is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University New Brunswick. Her research centers around the question: how do basic cognitive structures enable our learning of complex symbolic...

Lamei Wang

lamei_wang@gse.harvard.edu

Previous Visiting Research Scientist

Lamei Wang was previously a visiting scholar at CoCoDev Lab. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Shenzhen University, China. Her research focuses on family and child psychology, especially on parenting and child social-emotional development.

Jiayi Wang-Zhao

jiayiwang@fas.harvard.edu

Previous Lab Manager at CoCoDev

Jiayi was the lab manager of Bonawitz CoCoDev Lab (HGSE) and Ullman CoCoDev Lab (FAS Psychology). She received her B.A. in Psychology and Japanese from Boston University in 2022. Jiayi's ongoing project investigates how children generate explanations for...

Michelle Wong

michellewong@fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student

Michelle is a fifth-year PhD student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a concentration in Human Development, Learning, and Teaching (HDLT). She received her B.S. from Duke University where she also worked as a research coordinator for the...

Yang Yang

yang.yang@nie.edu.sg

Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at CoCoDev

Dr. Yang Yang was a Postdoctoral research fellow and at CoCoDev and is now a Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Child Development at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research has been focused...

Isminur Yilar

isminuryilar@gse.harvard.edu

Research Assistant

Isminur is a Research Assistant at the Bonawitz CoCoDev Lab. She holds an Ed.M degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology and a BA from Bogazici University in Early Childhood Education. She is...

Yue Yu

Dr. Yue Yu was a Postdoctoral researcher fellow at CoCoDev and is now a research scientist in the Center for Research in Child Development, National Institute of Education, Singapore. He studies learning in young children, especially how early learning is...

Carole Zhou

carolezhou@gse.harvard.edu

Previous Project Manager for Studies on "Detecting, Evaluating, and Learning from Rote Teaching Across Development"

Carole was a research assistant at Bonawitz CoCoDev Lab. She received her B.S. with magna cum laude in Elementary Education and Child Studies from Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Subsequently, she finished and received her Master’s in Education...