Su Somay, EdD
Lead Measurement Scientist
Su Somay is a lead measurement scientist in the Office of Research Strategy at NBME. Her primary responsibilities include designing, supervising and contributing to innovative psychometric and assessment projects.
Her main research interests focus on automated scoring of performance-based assessments, natural language processing and speech recognition, clinical reasoning, and health systems science. She has also done research on a variety of areas, including equating, parameter estimation, Bayesian Item Response Theory models and validity.
She received her doctorate in psychometrics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007, where she was awarded the Psychometric Fellowship in 2006. Su also holds a master’s in social psychology from the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.
