Biography

I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before this role, I obtained my Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Missouri, where I was a recipient of the U.S. Census Bureau Dissertation Fellowship, and a recipient of the University of Missouri Population, Education and Health Center Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship. My dissertation work was focused on Bayesian methods for modeling non-Gaussian unit-level survey data under informative sampling, with an emphasis on application to small area estimation. I am broadly interested in modeling dependent data (time-series, spatial, functional, etc.) for a variety of applications including official statistics, social sciences, and ecology. I am also interested in integration of modern machine learning and data science techniques to help improve statistical models.