Teaching

Courses

Course Year Course Number Institution Description
Biostatistical Methods in Categorical Data 2026 BIOS 5730 Iowa Methods for categorical and count outcomes, including contingency tables, measures of association (odds ratios, relative risk), logistic, count, multinomial, and ordinal regression.
Model Selection 2023 BIOS 7722 Colorado A survey of methods for choosing an optimal statistical model: information criteria, the bias/variance tradeoff, overfitting, model validation, variable selection, and model averaging/ensembles.
Statistical Consulting 2020–2024 BIOS 6621 Colorado Hands-on experience with statistical consulting and with communicating effectively with investigators, through real consultations and case studies.
Applied Biostatistics II 2021–2022 BIOS 6602 Colorado Extends inferential statistics to more complex models, including linear and logistic regression, model selection, and survival analysis.

Mentoring & Advising

I currently serve as doctoral thesis advisor for Jared Rieck (with Julia Wrobel), Sarah Bird (with Julia Wrobel), and Jinal Shah (with Yue Wang), and I have advised numerous master’s theses, including Matthew Bolt, Alyse Winchester, Raymond Pomponio, and Amy Dye-Robinson. I’m always glad to hear from prospective students, fellows, and collaborators interested in transparent statistical modeling and collaborative data science.

 

Last updated: June 2026