Additional Campus Affiliations
Research Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Research Professor, Psychology
Research Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Affiliate, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Social & Behavioral Science Institute
Recent Publications
Hu, K., Fan, X., Hu, Y., Li, J., Lee, B., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., & McElwain, N. L. (2026). Bridging Machine Learning and Event-Based Analyses to Assess Maternal Contingent Responses to Infant Nondistress and Distress Vocalizations From Home Audio Recordings. Developmental science, 29(5), Article e70251. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70251
Fan, X., Li, J., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., & McElwain, N. L. (2025). Band-Split Self-supervised Mamba for Infant-centered Audio Analysis. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2795-2799. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-504
Hu, Y., Li, X., & McElwain, N. L. (2025). Mother–infant interactive processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery: Associations at 3, 6, and 9 months of age. Developmental psychology, 61(8), 1452-1463. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001878
Kim, S. G., Holland, A., Brezinski, K., Tu, K. M., & McElwain, N. L. (2025). Adolescent-Mother Attachment and Dyadic Affective Processes: Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms. Journal of youth and adolescence, 54(3), 736-749. Article e49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02091-7
Li, J., Lavechin, M., Fan, X., McElwain, N. L., Cristia, A., Garcia-Perera, P., & Hasegawa-Johnson, M. A. (2025). Automated Analysis of Naturalistic Recordings in Early Childhood: Applications, challenges, and opportunities. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 42(6), 16-34. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2025.3610974