Research Professor

Student Research Opportunities

Additional Campus Affiliations

Research Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
Research Professor, Psychology
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Research Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Social & Behavioral Sciences Institute

Recent Publications

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

Li, X., McElwain, N. L., & Tu, K. M. (2025). Early Mother-Child Interaction Flexibility Predicts Adolescent Psychological Adjustment. Journal of youth and adolescence, 54(1), 225-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02059-7

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