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Lafayette, Co, Us

Lafayette, Co, Us

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Principal investigator for Department of Homeland Security funded nuclear forensics research• Lead multi-lab team of 6 researchers • Write funding proposal and quarterly reports documenting project progress, successes and impact• Scope strategic direction of research methods aimed at identifying special nuclear material from forensic data• Develop novel statistical models using functional data analysis to characterize nuclear material in images and inverse predict processing conditions• Advise junior staff, postdocs, and interns• Publish peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles and present work at scientific conferences• Budget stuffHybrid Statistical and Machine Learning team lead of geoengineering impact • Lead team of 3 researchers• Advise junior staff, postdocs, and interns• Publish peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles and present work at scientific conferences• Develop novel hybrid statistical/deep learning models which combine predictive power of DL models with interpretability and uncertainty quantification of statistical models• Lead research group meetings to inspire innovation and generate new ideas and directions• Tie all deliverables back to main project goals to ensure mission impactDeep Learning for Hyperspectral image target detection• Implement Bayesian deep learning models to hyperspectral image problems• Compare different uncertainty quantification for deep learning methodsStatistical consultant to engineering teams on short and long term basis as needed

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

• Advised and oversaw 22 research statisticians, postdocs, and interns• Set strategic direction of department in new center (containing 15 departments)• Mentor staff for career development• Develop department level capability which efficiently documents, stores, and relates methodology, expert knowledge, data, and code• Organized regular Statistics Colloquium speaker series bringing external speakers onsite to present and discus new statistical methods• Lead center-level employee recognition working group aimed at creating better recognition avenues for staff• Lead hiring work group to create standardized recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding process for statistics department• Recruit, hire, and onboard new staff and interns, and integrate them into the Sandia culture and the statistics team

Champaign, Il, Us

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Teach introductory statistics to class of 300 undergraduates from diverse majors. Lead group of 5 TAs and graders to assist in course delivery.

Ames, Iowa, Us

Ames, Iowa, Us

Richland, Wa, Us

Worked on data streaming problems under the Analysis in Motion initiative. Extensive use of time series and predictive statistical and machine learning methods.

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

Write R code to extract data from Excel spreadsheets daily, and then use knitr to automatically generate and email daily reports with tables and graphs in ggplot2Create Shiny App to allow unlimited analysis from information collected in daily reportWrite python code to extract data from various sources (excel, internet, etc)Use MySQL in conjunction with R to gather and analyze dataProvide support to coworkers with R and LaTeX including knitr, ggplot2

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Head of all financial related operations for company with $1.3 million in sales.Responsible for reporting financial status to Board of Directors.Created yearly budgets for entire company.In charge of all monthly financial reporting and payroll activities.Managed two employees in the Finance Department.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Statistics

Master Of Science (Ms), Statistics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics