Brief biography
Welcome to my webpage! I am an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. My PhD is in Statistics from UNC at Chapel Hill, and I have an MS in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU.

Link: Curriculum Vitae
Link: Google Scholar Profile
ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5164-9430

Current research interests
  • Foundations of statistics
  • Conformal predictions
  • Hidden Markov models
  • Model/feature selection
  • Medical science applications
  • Conflict research applications

News

The Associate Director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) noted my current research with Mayo Clinic, on identifying bleeding events in hospital ICUs, as one of three exemplary software development projects currently funded by the NIH. See slide 5 of the slide deck presented as part of a panel discussion at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto: link

My PhD student, Alexander Murph, co-advised by Jan Hannig and Curt Storlie, graduated in Spring 2023! Congratulations, Dr. Murph!
Check out his research at: website

Beginning in 2023, I will serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association: Reviews.

I have been invited as a Visiting Fellow as part of the 2022-2023 research project Stability and Change at the Centre for Advanced Study at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (website). As part of my participation, I will be in Oslo, Norway during August - December 2022.

I was awarded the 2021-22 LeRoy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence: website.


My first PhD student, Salil Koner, co-advised by Ana-Maria Staicu, graduated in Fall 2021! Congratulations, Dr. Koner!
Check out his research at: website


Completed a great Summer 2021 REU project with these excellent undergraduate students.
Check out the preprint of our manuscript: website

One of my papers has been featured on a popular machine learning podcast website.