email: ebh3ep (at) virginia (dot) edu
Department of Statistics
College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Office: Halsey Hall 109
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.