Bio

I’m a Professor of the Practice and Associate Head in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. I’m also the Director of Consulting at our Data Science Academy. My research interests include developing best practices for teaching statistical consulting and collaboration and for organizing these efforts in higher education. 

I am active in the North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and served as its President in 2019. I am also active in the broader ASA: I am on the Pathways to Promotion committee in the Section on Statistical Consulting and am the District 5 Vice Chair to the Council of Chapters Governing Board.

After earning my Ph.D. in statistics from NC State University in 2008, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland. In 2009 I began working for the Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia, and in 2013 I returned to NC State as a professional track assistant professor. I was promoted to the associate level in 2018 and to Professor of the Practice in 2024. 

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Publications

• A reliable and holistic approach to evaluating hearing and cognitive auditory processing in adult and aged companion dogs , Scientific Reports (2026)
• An Exploratory Assessment of Associations Between Serum Estrogen to Progesterone Ratio and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Size, Biomechanics, and T2* Relaxation Time in the Porcine Model , Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (2026)
• An illusion of equability: Paleoclimate proxies, environmental variability, and temperature seasonality in greenhouse worlds , Geological Society of America Bulletin (2026)
• Differences in PFAS exposure between Pacific pinnipeds: The Galapagos (Zalophus wollebaeki) and California (Zalophus californianus) sea lions , Marine Pollution Bulletin (2026)
• Improving paleoclimate predictions from paleosol geochemistry , SSRN Electronic Journal (2026)
• Maternal Mediterranean Diet during Pregnancy and Adiposity from Early Childhood through Preadolescence , Childhood Obesity (2026)
• When are novel methods for analyzing complex chemical mixtures in epidemiology beneficial? , Environmental Epidemiology (2026)
• Developmental Toxicity and Lethality of Structurally Diverse PFAS in Zebrafish , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)
• Modern (Table SI1) and paleo (Table SI2) compilation datasets for the SGPM model , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2025)
• Modern (Table SI1) and paleo (Table SI2) compilation datasets for the SGPM model , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2025)