Personal Statement
I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of New Mexico and an associate member of University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UNMCCC). I have a working knowledge of linear and logistic regression, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, survival analysis, spatial statistics, and time series. As an instructor, I have regularly offered courses Introduction to Time Series to both undergraduate and graduate students in UNM. I also developed and taught the course Spatial Statistics and its Biostatistics application which covers the modeling of spatial-temporal data.
As a researcher, I have published six peer-reviewed methodological articles related to recurrent time-to-event data, geo-referenced survival data, and mis-measured survival data. I also have a manuscript in revision on longitudinal smoking cessation behavior data. As a Biostatistician, I joined an ongoing Superfund project on metal exposure toxicity assessment on tribal lands. My role is to develop an integrated statistical risk model that can predict the likelihood of disease from environmental characteristics of the waste materials.
Education
Graduate School: University of South Carolina-Columbia, SC