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Katie Gates
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Michigan State University City University of New York Pennsylvania State University |
| Known for | Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (GIMME) algorithm |
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| Fields | Neuroscience Quantitative psychology |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina |
| Thesis | Novel estimation method for arriving at group connectivity maps with fMRI data |
| Doctoral advisors | Michael Rovine Peter Molenaar |
Kathleen Marie "Katie" Gates is an American neuroscientist and quantitative psychologist. A neuroscientist studies the brain and nervous system. A quantitative psychologist uses math and statistics to understand how people think and behave. Dr. Gates teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She is well-known for helping to create ways to study how people's brains and behaviors change over time. Imagine tracking how your mood or focus changes every day. Dr. Gates helps develop tools to understand these patterns.
With another scientist, Peter Molenaar, she invented something called GIMME. It's like a special computer program (an algorithm) that helps scientists understand how our bodies and minds work together over time.
Katie Gates's Journey
Katie Gates grew up in Troy, Michigan. She went to Michigan State University for her first degree. Later, she earned a master's degree in forensic psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. Forensic psychology uses psychology in legal settings.
She then earned her PhD from Pennsylvania State University. Her studies focused on how people develop and how to use quantitative methods (which means using numbers and statistics) to understand them. In 2013, she joined the Psychology and Neuroscience department at the University of North Carolina.
She is also an elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. This is a group for scientists who use advanced statistical methods.
Her Research Work
Dr. Gates creates statistical methods to analyze a special type of information called "intensive longitudinal data." This means collecting lots of data from the same person over a long period. For example, it could be tracking someone's brain activity or mood many times a day.
Her main funding comes from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. This organization supports research that uses engineering and imaging to improve health.
