I’m a research scientist interested in social and ecological questions. In my research, I have developed computational and statistical tools to better understand how social animals respond to landscape and climate changes. Much of this work has focused on wildlife populations, e.g., assessing how landscape changes influence the spread of disease, how social structures influence group movement, and how social network structures develop over time. I apply the insights and tools developed in this research to conservation efforts of social mammals, particularly non-human primates, and whales. I’m also passionate about training students in statistics and data science. There have been some big shifts in teaching that have made it easier to get students hooked on statistics and data science, mainly, computational notebooks, and cloud infrastructures like Colaboratory for learning machine learning. I really enjoy using these tools to make teaching statistics and data science an interactive and hands-on experience.