I am currently a Professor in the Department of
Statistics and Data
Science at Cornell University, one of three departments in Computing and Information Science.
I visited the Department of Operations Research and Information
Engineering at Cornell in 2003, and was hired in the
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the following
year. From 1987 to 2003 I was a faculty member in the
Department of Statistics at the
University of Florida. During that period I spent two years as a
Research Fellow at the Australian National University, and one year at
Colorado State University.
My research interests involve basic
statistical methodology including: the bootstrap and Monte Carlo
methods, clustering, exact inference, mixed models, generalized linear
models, and also applications in bioinformatics. I have taught a variety of
courses at Cornell including Statistical Methods II,
the second semester of a statistical
methods sequence for graduate students from a wide variety of
disciplines, Biological Statistics I,
Data Science for All,
as well as core courses for statistics undergraduates,
professional masters students, and Ph.D. students in the
Fields of Statistics. As a CALS faculty member in SDS part of my teaching effort
involves contributions to the campus-wide statistical consulting service through the
Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit.
