🎓 About Me
I’m an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics at UC Santa Cruz. I completed my PhD at NC State, where I specialized in spatial-temporal statistics and climate science applications—basically figuring out how to make sense statistically of weather and climate data across time and space.
🌍 My Research Journey
Since then, my work has taken me all over the place! I’ve collaborated on projects involving:
- 🌡️ Spatial-temporal statistical methods for Climate models
- 🔬 Design of Experiments applied to Biophysics
- 📊 Functional Data Analysis applied to Spectrophotometry
- 🔓 Reproducibility and Open Science
What I love most is working with researchers from different fields and helping them tackle their data and statistical challenges.
📚 Teaching & Program Development
These days, I’m focused on two main areas:
🤝 Statistical Collaboration: Being the go-to statistician for various research groups.
🎯 Education Innovation: Reimagining how we teach statistics and data science. I led the charge to create our new Statistics and Data Science degree program at UCSC, and I’ve been redesigning intro courses and creating new classes on data science methods and data ethics.
🔬 Current Big Project: ReproStats Lab
My current major work these days is securing funding for the ReproStats Lab: a space where undergrads and grad students learn by actually reproducing complex statistical studies. I’m passionate about connecting data ethics with reproducibility and training the next generation of scientists to be both smart consumers and responsible producers of statistical work.
🌎 Community Involvement
I’m active in the broader data science community:
- 🪑 Co-chair the CODATA-RDA Schools of Data Science
- 🇨🇷 Organized the first R conferences in Central America (ConectaR2019 and ConectaR2021)
💡 My Mission
Everything I do centers around making data science and statistics more open, accessible, reproducible, and responsible.
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