I'm an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics at UC Santa Cruz, specializing in applied statistics and data science and statistics education.

Here's where I share my code (and sometimes data) from my interdisciplinary collaborations and teaching practice.

🔬 ReproStats Lab
Building a collaborative space where students learn by reproducing complex statistical studies, connecting data ethics with reproducibility to train responsible producers of statistical work.

• Securing funding for undergraduate and graduate student research opportunities
• Bridging the gap between statistical methodology and ethical data practices

🎯 Statistics & Data Science Program Development
Leading educational innovation at UCSC through curriculum design and program creation:

• Co-created the new Statistics and Data Science degree program
• Redesigning introductory statistics courses for modern data science applications
• Developing new courses on data science methods and data ethics
• Training the new generation of instructors of statistics via STAT 200 and the Teaching and Learning Center training for TAs

🔬 Interdisciplinary Statistical Collaboration
Working with researchers across disciplines on:

• Design of Experiments applied to Biophysics
• Functional Data Analysis for Spectrophotometry
• Climate science applications

🔓 Reproducibility & Open Science
Advancing transparent and reproducible statistical practices in scientific research and how to teach the next generation of scientists.

🤝 Statistical Consulting
Serving as the go-to statistician for various research groups, helping tackle complex data and statistical challenges.

Making data science and statistics more open, accessible, reproducible, and responsible through education, research, and community engagement.

Last Updated: July 2025