Ji Y. Son is Professor of Psychology at California State University at Los Angeles and director of the Learning Lab at Cal State LA. She is a co-author of the interactive textbook "Introduction to Statistics: A Modeling Approach" published using CourseKata.org used by over 50 institutions of higher education and high schools. Her PhD in Cognitive Science and Psychology is from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is interested in how basic cognitive and perceptual processes foster rich and transferable learning. Her work examines methods of applying psychological insights at scale to issues like mathematics remediation and student success. Through directing wise interventions at Cal State LA, she has helped develop and validate materials to help students achieve higher and persist longer. The central idea behind Ji’s work is that learning changes the way we see the world.