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I  graduated from the Statistics Department at the University of Washington in Seattle where I was also part of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.  My Ph.D. advisor was Peter Hoff and my secondary advisor was Kevin Quinn.  I then spent 6 months (starting January '07) as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Empirical Research in the Law and the Center for Applied Statistics at  Washington University in St Louis where Andrew Martin was my mentor. 

Currently I am interested in statistical methodology for  relational/interaction data which include social network data and game theoretic data.   Additional topics of interest include: Bayesian data analysis, decision theory, Bayesian inference for structured covariance matrices, methodology for dependent data in general, environmental statistics, graphical models, and causal modeling.

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

News:

1. ✦ UNLV and the Brookings Institution Announce the Brookings Mountain West Initiative!
   

2. ✦ Frank Gehry & the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Downtown Las Vegas.
   

Other Links:

1.   R-project for Statistical Computing
   

2.   Scythe Statistical Library -- an open source C++ library for statistical computation with functionality similar to R.
   

3.   OpenBugs (Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling)
   

4.   Discovery Channel feature presentation on Bayesian Statistics