Daniel Spencer Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

I use statistical methods to probabilistically model tropical cyclones in order to contribute to an assessment of risk for insured and insurable properties in various regions around the world.

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

Brain scans provide huge amounts of data from the human brain, much of which is noise. I worked in Dr. Amanda Mejia's lab on a number of problems centered around the analysis of MRI and fMRI data using Bayesian methods.

Santa Cruz, California

As a teaching assistant for 14 quarters at UCSC, I has experience leading discussion sections, grading homework and exams, and keeping a gradebook in collaboration with instructors and other teaching assistants across a wide variety of undergraduate statistics courses. For two quarters, I was the instructor for a graduate-level introduction to R.

Columbus, Ohio

I developed a balance tier model for commercial clients as part of a team that worked to estimate portfolio size of the commercial and consumer banking lines a business.

• Contributed to the design of the Introductory Statistics and Elementary Statistics online course curricula, including creation of lab activities using Minitab and SPSS
• Communicated daily via email and online meeting software with students and department faculty

Columbus, Ohio Area

- Wrote SQL queries to pull information from multiple databases- Built models in R to estimate and forecast quantities in tier 1 models (high visibility, high impact)- Wrote documentation to interpret and validate model output

• Met with provincial- and national-level counterparts in order to plan, fund, and realize the Science and HIV/AIDS Fair, an annual nationwide competition to further STEM education and provide resources to combat the HIV.
• Designed and delivered lessons and assessments for math and computer literacy classes in Portuguese to eighth and tenth grade students in a rural village

• Met with graduate students and faculty in order to help explain designs of experiments and interpret the analysis of data across a spectrum of statistical software including SAS, Stata and SPSS
• Designed and delivered lectures and assessments for courses on introductory SAS and elementary statistics to classes ranging in size from 24 to 200 students.

* Led lab sections for various statistics courses for all levels of undergraduate students* Graded assignments, quizzes and exams

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Statistics

• Developed adaptive Bayesian regression methods for high-dimensional data problems with applications in the analysis of neuroimaging data.

Master Of Applied Statistics, Applied Statistics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics