When I’m not on campus, typically i’m growing 🥕🌾🍅🍆🍏 for my family, out adventuring with my 🐶🧔🐩 , or getting some 🎮🎲📚 time in.
Campus life consists of:
Dr. P.H. in Biostatistics, 2013
Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
MS in Biostatistics, 2007
Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
BS in Mathematics, Option in Statistics, 2005
California State University, Chico
BS in General Biology, Minor in Chemistry, 2005
California State University, Chico
I teach the following courses at Chico State. The term where I last taught that class is listed in parentheses.
And have created, curated, or contributed to the following teaching materials, most of which (textbook excepted) are licenced under CC-BY-NC.
Last updated January, 2024
Welcome to the Future of Agriculture
Project DA-FANH works to retain and graduate highly qualified students while dismantling barriers and existing stereotypes. We aim to build a pathway for students of color in the intersection of Data Science/Data Analytics within food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences (FANH) careers.
Los-Angeles based research group implementing school-based teen pregnancy prevention programs
Working to help hungry students get the nutritious food they need to stay healthy and succeed.
The iLEARN project will initiate a systematic, institutional approach to assessing the impact of programs on student success.
This project enhances a current Sustaining Success project designed to improve student performance in Chemistry 111 (increased GPA, decrease DWF rate) by providing a deeper look at the characteristics of who takes this course, and who passes this course.
Passion-Driven Statistics (PDS) is an introductory, project-based model that gets students hooked on the excitement and power of quantitative research. I am a site partner for the PDS grant, and have been using this pedagogy in Math 315 since Spring 2018. Click the PDF
link below to see a poster I presented at the Joint Math Meetings
This is the sixth edition of a popular textbook on multivariate analysis.
Using Convolutional Neural Networks as a method of automatic data entry of PDF paper surveys
Streamlining abstract submission, processing, and judging for the annual College Poster Session at CSU, Chico. Pipeline uses Google Forms, R, Markdown, Sweave, LaTeX, GitHub, and Shiny.
Drop-in open work environment for anyone working on anything coding or data related. Students, staff, faculty, and the public are welcome. Summer hours now posted.
The Data Science Initiative (DSI) at Chico State is an interdisiplinary community that provides support and training for Data Science endeavors.
Annual weekend long undergraduate data challenge event. Friendly competition with food, fun and prizes.