Howdy! I'm an assistant professor of statistics in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Southern Methodist University. Before joining SMU, I was a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin working with Dr. Catherine Calder and Dr. Corwin Zigler. And before that, I finished my PhD in August 2020, which dealt with computational methods in spatial statistics. My advisor was Dr. Matthias Katzfuss. We used approximations of Gaussian processes to construct scalable methods for working with big data sets. 

I also write code that implements the methods we develop. Python and C++ are my favorite languages but I also do a fair amount of work in R. In fact, I maintain the GPvecchia packages that we developed together with other people from katzfuss-group.

In the past, I worked with some really cool people at NCAR which was a lot of fun and got me interested in statistical data assimilation.

If you are interested in my research and want to reach out, you can find my email in the CV section.