I am a transdisciplinary statistician and data scientist who develops integrative, holistic statistical methodologies for multi-faceted problems, mainly from the environmental and biological sciences. Graduate students and interns under my supervision from the past and present have conducted statistical research with an environmental focus.
Since 2009, I have been serving as an Associate Editor of Environmetrics, the official journal of The International Environmetrics Society.
Prior to VIMS at the College of William & Mary (2019–), I was a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in North America) at the Australian National University’s Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics (RSFAS) (2015–2018), where I also served as my School’s and College’s Program Convenor for the tri-College Master of Applied Data Analytics professional degree program. Currently, I am an Honorary Associate Profesor (equivalent to Honorary Full Professor in North America) at the ANU Climate Change Institute.
In 2009, I moved from Canada to join the CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics division (which later became the CSIRO Computational Informatics division, followed by the CSIRO Digital Productivity flagship) as a Senior Research Scientist until 2015. While still at CSIRO, I became a Visiting Fellow at RSFAS prior to my formal employment at ANU.
From 2005–2009, I was an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the University of Waterloo, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, with which I am currently an Adjunct Professor. From 2003–2005, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Northwest Research Center for Statistics and the Environment at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I am now an Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics.
I have held numerous competitive research grants funded by NSERC (Canadian counterpart of NSF and ARC), CSIRO, and the industry. In 2012, I received a Young Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association - Section on Statistics and the Environment. In 2011, I was a Selected Participant of the Australian Academy of Science Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank in Brisbane. That year, I also became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. I won the Statistical Society of Canada Pierre Robillard Award for best Canadian statistics Ph.D. thesis from 2002.