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)

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

Aiden Kerns

Program: PhD in Statistics

Email: awkerns@ksu.edu

Research Topic: TBD

Yoshimitsu Nagaoka

Program: PhD in Statistics (co-advised with Dr. Juan Du)

Email: ynagaoka@ksu.edu

Research Topic: TBD

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

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

Brady Eisert

Current position: Something that combines what a statistician does mixed with what a therapist does  (link).

Program: MS in Statistics

Email: bradyce@ksu.edu 

Research Topic: 

Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dfaJArwAAAAJ

Publications: 

• Eisert, B. (2024) What’s the difference? A clarification of the statistical assumptions in congruence modeling. Master's Report, Kansas State University.

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/ 

Publications: 

• Rieber, C.J., T.J., Hefley, D.A. Haukos. (2024) Treed Gaussian processes for animal movement modeling. Ecology and Evolution. 14:e11447.

• Rieber, C. (2023) Treed Gaussian processes for animal movement modeling. Master's Report, Kansas State University.

Josefina Lacasa

Current position: Assistant Professor 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

Publications: 

• Lacasa, J. (2023) A Bayesian approach for estimating and checking block designs in agricultural experiments. Master's Report, Kansas State University.

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., T.J. Hefley, K. Silber, W.A. Boyle (2023) Data fusion of distance sampling and capture-recapture data. Spatial Statistics 55:100756.

• Mohankumar, N.M., and T.J. Hefley. (2022) Using machine learning to identify nontraditional spatial dependence in occupancy data. Ecology 103:e03563.

• Mohankumar, N.M. Data fusion and spatio-temporal approaches to model species distribution. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University.

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. 

• Walker, N.B., Statistical methods for modeling infectious disease outbreaks using disease surveillance data. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University.