Ph.D. - Mathematical Psychology Université d'Aix En Provence - 1980
M.S. - Neurology University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg - 1977
M.S. - Economics / Econometrics University of Clermond-Ferrand - 1976
M.S. - Psychology University of Franche-Comté - 1975
Research Areas
Research Interests
MultivariatePsychometrics / Sensometrics / Advanced Multivariate Statistics / Individual Differences / Analysis of Qualitative Data
My research is organized around two main areas: a) advanced statistics, sensometrics, and psychometrics and b) psychology of memory. The psychology of memory research is mainly directed toward the modeling of semantic memory (e.g., scripts, schema, concepts), autobiographical memory, and memory for non-verbal material (e.g., taste, smell, faces). For statistics, sensometrics, and psychometrics, my interest includes the analysis of qualitative data and the analysis of complex and large multi-block and multi-modality data sets (e.g., mixture of quantitative and qualitative data) as often found in brain imaging or genomic data. These methods include (among others): simple and multiple correspondence analysis, partial least square correlation (PLSC) and regression (PLSR), Multi-Way multi-dimensional scaling (STATIS), and multiple factor analysis (MFA). I am also interested in making the results of these analyses easier to interpret by developing new methods (e.g., sparsification) that can help automatically identity important variables and observations in large and complex data sets.
Publications
Schwarz, A.L., Jurica, M., Edge, C., Stiller, C., Webb-Culver, T., & Abdi H. (2022). How do teachers of deaf prereaders communicating in american sign language select storybooks for read alouds? The American Annals of the Deaf, 167. - publication
Fullbright Scholar - Brown University / Université de Bourgogne [1987]
Fullbright Scholar - Brown University / Université de Bourgogne [1986]
Appointments
Professor The University of Texas at Dallas [1994–Present]
Adjunct Professor University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center [2001–2016]
Associate Professor The University of Texas at Dallas [1989–1994]
Professor Université de Bourgogne [1988–1998]
Visiting Professor Brown University [1986–1987]
Associate Professor Universite de Bourgogne [1983–1988]
Assistant Professor Universite de Besançon [1979–1983]
Additional Information
Honors and Awards
Fullbright scholar (1986-1987). Center for Cognitive Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rl., U.S.A.
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS). Fellow at the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies (2014-2015).
Personal Statement
Hervé Abdi received an MS in Psychology from the University of Franche-Comté (France) in 1975, an MS (D.E.A.) in Economics from the University of Clermond-Ferrand (France) in 1976, an MS (D.E.A.) in Neurology from the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France) in 1977, and a PhD in Mathematical Psychology from the University of Aix-en-Provence (France) in 1980.
He was an assistant professor in the University of Franche-Comté (France) in 1979, an associate professor in the University of Bourgogne at Dijon (France) in 1983, a full professor in the University of Bourgogne at Dijon (France) in 1988. He is currently a full professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas and an adjunct professor of Radiology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Dr. Abdi was a Fullbright scholar and visiting associate professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University in 1986 and 1987; he has been, also, a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Chuo University (Japan), Université de Dijon (France), Université de la Sorbonne (Paris), the "Conservatoire Nationale des Art et Métiers" (Paris) and the Rotman institute (Canada).
Affiliations
Current Ph.D. Students
Shelia Meldrum
Luke Moraglia
Some Former Ph.D. Students
Lucile Chanquoy (now Professor at the Université de Nice, France)
Patrick Lemaire (now Professor at the Université de Marseille, France).
Dominique Valentin (now Associate Professor at the Université de Bourgogne a Dijon, France)
Betty Edelman (now Senior Lecturer at UTD).
Fan Yang (now Associate Professor at the Université de Bourgogne à Dijon, France)
Mette Posamentier (now Assistant Dean of assessment, Engineering & Computer Science, UTD).
Nils Pénard (now senior statistical scientist at UCB BIOSCIENCES GmbH, Monheim, Germany).
Dana Roark (now senior lecturer at UTD).
Marsha Neville-Smith. (now professor at TWU-Dallas Campus).
Jun Yi Wang (now postdoctoral scholar at University of California at Davis).
Anjali Krishnan (now associate professor, Brooklyn College, New York).
Joseph Dunlop (now research scientist, SAS Institute).
Derek Beaton (now Director of Advanced Analytics, Data Science & Advanced Analytics, DSAA, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada).
Cherise Chin Fatt (now Assistant Professor UTSW, Dallas, Texas).
Michael Kriegsman (now CEO Michael Kriegsman Consulting).
Ju-Chi Yu (now post-doctoral fellow Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada).