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.
Since then, my work has taken me all over the place! I’ve collaborated on projects involving:
What I love most is working with researchers from different fields and helping them tackle their data and statistical challenges.
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.
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.
I’m active in the broader data science community:
Everything I do centers around making data science and statistics more open, accessible, reproducible, and responsible.
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