Christopher Runyon, PhD
Senior Measurement Scientist
Christopher Runyon is a senior measurement scientist at NBME. His current primary research focus is the assessment of clinical reasoning. He also has experience building automated scoring frameworks that utilize natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML).
His prior academic work includes the study of causal inference with observational data, thinking heuristics and biases, philosophical and mathematical logic, non-classical logic systems, and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (especially Tibetan Buddhist Reasoning and Debate). He is interested in anything related to psychometrics, statistics, measurement, ML and NLP.
Christopher received his doctorate in quantitative methods at the University of Texas in Austin, a master’s in cognitive psychology at James Madison University, undergraduate degrees in philosophy and psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and an undergraduate degree in religious studies at the University of Virginia.
