Hi there!

I have joined the Statistics Department at UVA in late August 2024. Before that, I was a faculty member at GMU for eight years [CV]. My research interests are diverse and revolve around common themes at the interface of statistics and computation. Specific areas of recent interest are:

• Record Linkage, Data Integration, Asynchronously Collected Data [UVA A&S article] [recent short course (IISA 23)]

• High-Dimensional Data, Data Compression

• Optimization in Statistical Settings

• Statistics in Forensics and Life Sciences

Active sponsored projects: NSF-OAC-2411270, NSF-SES 2120-318, NIH R01-NS097457-4.
Completed sponsored projects: NSF-CCF 1849876, NIJ-2018-DU-BX-0228.

I serve as an associate editor of the Electronic Journal of Statistics. 

Education & Training:

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, NJ.
Host: Ping Li. 

2015 Dr. rer. nat. (~Ph.D.), Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany.
Advisor: Matthias Hein. Committee: Thomas Lengauer, Jared Tanner, Joachim Weickert. 

2008 Diplom (~combined bachelor's/master's degree), Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Mentors: Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Wolfgang zu Castell, Martin Daumer, Gerhard Tutz.