About

Education

• Ph.D., Statistical Science, UC Santa Cruz, 2019.
  
  • Dissertation: Bayesian Mixture Modeling and Order Selection for Markovian Time Series (link)
  • Co-advisors: Athanasios Kottas and Stephan Munch.
• M.S., Statistics, Brigham Young University, 2014.
  
  • Health and sports statistics
  • Advisor: Gilbert Fellingham.
• B.S., Statistics: Actuarial Science Emphasis, Brigham Young University, 2014.

Experience

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, BYU, 2019 - Present
• Summer Graduate Pedagogy Mentor, UC, Santa Cruz, 2018.
• Online Course Developer, UC, Santa Cruz, 2016-2017.
• Summer Student Intern, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, 2015 and 2016.
• Statistician Intern, Savvysherpa Inc., 2014.
• Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, 2012-2014.
• R Programmer/Intern, Acxiom Corporation, 2013.
• Acturaial Intern, Aon Hewitt, 2011.