Michael Douglas Hunter

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Home:
2224 Commonwealth Drive Apartment D
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Office:
(434) 924-3600
Department of Psychology
Gilmer Hall Room 102
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Mobile:
(810) 4446549
Email:
mhunter@virginia.edu
Web:
http://people.virginia.edu/~mdh9g
Age:
24

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March 3, 2010

FORMAL EDUCATION
B.S. Mathematics, August 2008
Michigan State University, Magna Cum Laude, East Lansing, MI.
B.S. Psychology, August 2008
Michigan State University, Magna Cum Laude, East Lansing, MI (advisor Ryan P. Bowles)
Thesis Topic: Personality as a Damped and Forced Harmonic Oscillator

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Computer & Statistical Programming Languages: C, C++, UNIX, ROOT, Visual Basic,
Mathematica, Matlab, R, SAS, SPSS, Mx, OpenMx, Mplus, BILOG-MG.
Mathematics: Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Group Theory, Modules, Vector Spaces,
Rings, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential
Equations

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
8/2008present: Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
5/20088/2008: Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
1/20075/2007: Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University

PROFESSIONAL HONORS
Senior Honors Thesis (2007-2008) Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.
Topic: Personality as a Damped and Forced Harmonic Oscillator
Advisor: Ryan P. Bowles
Deans Honor List (2004-2008) Michigan State University.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES, PROCEEDINGS, AND ABSTRACTS

Brick, T.R., Hunter, M.D., & Cohn, J.F. (2009). Towards Automatic Coding of Facial Expression [Abstract]. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 44, 849.
Brick, T.R., Hunter, M.D., & Cohn, J.F. (2009). Get the FACS Fast: Automated FACS face
analysis benefits from the addition of velocity. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interactions (ACII 2009).
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BOOK CHAPTERS
Boker, S.M., Montpetit, M.A., Hunter, M.D., & Bergeman, C.S. (2010). Modeling resilience with
differential equations. In Individual Pathways to Change: Statistical Models for Analyzing
Learning and Development, P. Molenaar & K. Newell (Eds.) Washington, DC: APA. pp.??????.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Bowles, R. P., Grimm, K. J., Hunter, M. D. (in preparation). Item-specific retest effects and
the measurement of change.

CONFERENCE PAPERS, COLLOQUIA, SYMPOSIA, and POSTERS

Boker, S., Neale, M., Maes, H., Mehta, P., Wilde, M., Brick, T., Spies, J., Spiegel, M., Estabrook,
R., Hunter, M., Kenny, S., Fox, J., & Bates, T. (2009). OpenMx: An Open Source and
Extensible SEM Framework. Annual Meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental
Psychology; Salishan, Oregon; October 10, 2009.
Brick, T.R., Hunter, M.D., & Cohn, J.F. (2009). Towards Automatic Recognition of Facial
Affect. Annual Meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology; Salishan,
Oregon; October 9, 2009.
Brick, T.R., Hunter, M.D., & Cohn, J.F. (2009). Get the FACS Fast: Automated FACS face
analysis benefits from the addition of velocity. Presented to the 2009 International Conference
on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interactions (ACII 2009); Amsterdam, Netherlands;
September 12, 2009.
Bowles, R. P., Grimm, K. J., & Hunter, M. D. (2008). Item-specific retest effects and the
measurement of change. Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA; April 11, 2008.

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