I am Associate Professor in the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Portland State University, and co-director of the CADES Consulting Lab. My research focuses on advancing Bayesian methodology with emphasis on ecological applications, and on methodological aspects of Bayesian testing procedures.
Presenting at the 35th International Statistical Symposium (in Bogota, Colombia) our work on Bayesian multiplicity correction.
Presenting at WNAR our work on Clustering the Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process.
Jacob Schultz is defending his doctoral dissertation on June 5th.
Our paper latest paper Bayesian Multiplicity Correction in the Probabilistic Forward Step-wise Framework (with Andrew Womack) is up on arXiv. We used an analogy to the Holm procedure to generate a prior that adequately corrects for multiplicity in the Bayesian Variable Selection context.
Our paper Clustering the Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process (with Ashlynn Crisp and Andrew Finley) was published in Environmetrics.
During January and February of 2026, Ashlynn Crisp (one of our Lab's members) will be at Princeton University working with Professor Vincent Poor as a Visiting Student Research Collaborator.
Starting January, Jacob Schultz (one of our Lab's members) will carry out statistical validation work for the Connectivity Assessment and Mapping for Western Burrowing Owl in New Mexico, under the direction of our collaborator Martin Lafrenz. This project continues our work with OCAMP (in Oregon), to identify habitat requirements, preferences, and tolerance for moving through unsuitable habitats. Identify barriers to movement, including roadways, developed areas.