Dr. Jeon is an Assistant Professor of Advanced Quantitative Methods at the department of Education of UCLA. Prior to coming to UCLA, she was an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Psychology at the Ohio State University. She obtained her Ph.D in Quantitative Methods and Evaluation and MA in Statistics from UC Berkeley.

Her research interests include developing, applying, and estimating a variety of statistical/latent variable models, such as multilevel models, structural equation models, item response theory models, and growth models. She is also interested in developing computational algorithms and software. Her recent interests include item response tree/process models, network analysis, and joint modeling of multivariate data (such as behavior, cognitive, neural data).