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Education

University of Missouri Columbia, 2022

• Ph.D., Statistics
• Advisors: Drs. Christopher K. Wikle and Erin M. Schliep
• Dissertation: A Bayesian Approach to Data-Driven Discovery of Nonlinear Dynamic Equations

University of Missouri Columbia, 2019

• M.A., Statistics

University of Colorado Boulder, 2017

• B.S., Applied Mathematics
• B.A., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Minor, Statistics

Professional Experience

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2022 - Present

• Career Track Research Scientist (April 2025 - Present)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, CASCADE group (August 2022 - April 2025)
• Advisor: Dr. Mark D. Risser

Funding

• Hudson River Foundation, Collision Course: Modeling Vessel-Sturgeon Interactions in New York Harbor, $750,000, Co-Principal Investigator (2026-2030)
• DOE, Calibrated and Systematic Characterization, Attribution, and Detection of Extremes (CASCADE), Senior Personnel (2024-2027)

Teaching and Advising

• University of Missouri Columbia: Graduate Instructor, Introduction to Probability and Statistics I and II; Graduate Teaching Assistant and co-developer, Methods in Sports Analytics I and II
• Advised undergraduate and graduate students through DOE-RENEW, the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, and university partnerships

Awards

• Top 10 most cited 2023 International Statistical Review publication
• Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 2022 Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention
• ENVR Student Paper Competition, Honorable Mention (2022)

Service and Leadership

• The International Environmetrics Society (TIES): Early Career Committee Co-Chair (2025 - Present); Early Career Working Group Co-Lead (2025 - Present)
• American Statistical Association: Publications Chair-Elect, Statistics and the Environment Section (2026 - Present); Advisory Climate Change Policy Committee Member (2025 - Present)
• Associate Editor, Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (2024 - Present)