I develop novel statistical and machine learning methods for scientific questions, and communicate them effectively, whether to a room of domain experts, a classroom of students, or a grant review panel.

Research

Teaching

Talks

  • Meet the Postdocs

  • Seminar

    High-dimensional Multiple Hypothesis Testing Seminar Series

    AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland · Nov 2022

Essays

  • The Dash Between the Dates

    The short dash a stonemason cuts between two years, and why writing down both ends first is what lets the months between be checked. The measured difference behind this site.

  • Same Questions, Every Body

    Five body checks, from the stroke card to the Apgar score to the clock test, and why questions asked the same way of everyone are what let a card's misses be counted. Frameworks, measured.

  • Put a Pin on It

    The setup behind this site: one file says what is live, so the pages cannot quietly drift from it.

  • Nothing Grows Alone

    The Human Microbiome Project's 2009 chart of bacteria by body part, recounted to show what it actually measured. A field that is not mine yet.

  • What It Would Take, In Cups

    The lady tasting tea, checked against every surviving source: what Fisher's eight cups could rule out, and the woman most retellings never name. My own field, hypothesis testing.

  • The House in Your Head

    A thermostat, a dishwasher and a detergent cup, and the guess written down first that shows whose model of the house is wrong. Mental models, measured.

Put a Pin on It

A pharmacy gave its address from a fig tree that fell in 1991. What the directions count from, when the landmark falls, how the pins lead back: a letterpress, a shadow board, a print shop window.

The Dash Between the Dates

A stonemason cuts two years into granite with a dash between. Which end of a gap moved, which comes first, which is worth reaching, which is mine: life tables, a trial's delta, Demeter's year.

What the Fix Cost

In 1960, 23 cats parachuted into Borneo to repair a malaria fix. What a fix lands in, touches, switches off and leaves off the map: a freeway, a cheaper house, grapefruit juice and a credit card bill.

The House in Your Head

Plates rinsed before the dishwasher, a thermostat pushed like a gas pedal. What a model in your head assumes, who drew the settings, how they project, and where the model misses.

Same Questions, Every Body

An anchor loses her words on air, and the stroke card misses it. What a body check asks when a baby arrives, a child reads the chart, an adult fills in the form and an elder draws the clock.