Current Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Ricardo Carrizo
Email: racarriz@uc.cl
Research Topic: Partial differential equations models for ecological data (co-advised with Dr. Marc Kéry)
Dr. Andrew Whetten
Email: whettenandrew@gmail.com
Research Topic: Animal movement and disease control (co-advised with Dr. Dave Haukos)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/abwhetten-phd/research
Current Graduate Students
Abraham Arbelaez
Program: PhD in Statistics
Email: arbelaez@ksu.edu
Research Topic: TBD
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/abraham-arbelaez/about
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Koley Freeman
Email: koley@ksu.edu
Research Topic: Integrated population models for highly mobile grassland birds (co-advised with Dr. Alice Boyle)
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikole-freeman-6b485633/?originalSubdomain=ca
Former Graduate Students
Camille Rieber
Current position: Statistician with U.S. Geological Survey at the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
Program: MS in Statistics (co-advised with Dr. Dave Haukos)
Email: cjrieber@ksu.edu
Research Topic: Treed Gaussian processes for animal movement modeling
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camille-rieber-0b8296126/
Josefina Lacasa
Current position: PhD student in Agronomy at Kansas State University
Program: MS in Statistics
Email: lacasa@ksu.edu
Research Topic: A Bayesian approach for estimating and checking block designs in agricultural experiments
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MYoy4dwAAAAJ&hl=en
Narmadha Mohankumar
Current position: Data Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Program: PhD in Statistics
Email: meenu@ksu.edu
Research Topic: Data fusion and spatio-temporal approaches to model species distributions
Website: https://narmadhamohankumar.weebly.com/
Publications:
Mohankumar, N.M., and T.J. Hefley. (2022) Using machine learning to identify nontraditional spatial dependence in occupancy data. Ecology 103:e03563 [pdf]
Mohankumar, N.M. Data fusion and spatio-temporal approaches to model species distribution. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University [pdf]
Nelson Walker
Current position: Mathematical Statistican at United States Air Force
Program: PhD in Statistics (Completed December 2021)
Email: nelsonw@ksu.edu
Publications:
Walker, N.B., T.J. Hefley, A.E. Ballmann, R.E. Russell, D.P. Walsh. (2021) Recovering individual-level spatial inference from aggregated binary data. Spatial Statistics 44:100514. [pdf]
Walker, N.B., Statistical methods for modeling infectious disease outbreaks using disease surveillance data. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University [pdf]
Haoyu Zhang
Current position: Data Scientist at Eluvio
Program: MS in Statistics (Completed August 2020)
Congxing Zhu
Current position: Software Engineer at Paradigm Healthcare Services
Program: MS in Statistics (Completed August 2019)
Publications:
Zhu, C. (2019) Evaluation of numerical integration methods for kernel averaged predictors. Master's Report, Kansas State University [link]
Nelson Walker
Current position: Mathematical Statistican at United States Air Force
Program: MS in Statistics (Completed August 2018)
Publications: