ABOUT

Currently, I am a post-doctoral research fellow in biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts. I graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. in statistics in August 2011.

I grew up in western Massachusetts near the birthplace of basketball in a time when UMass actually had a relevant basketball team led by the likes of Donta Bright, Dana Dingle, and Lou Roe.  During junior high, I attended every UMass home game, which included a UMass victory over the Wake Forest Demon Deacons led by a young Tim Duncan.

After graduating from high school, I attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where I received my BS and continued on for an MS in applied statistics, where I completed my degree requirements by writing a thesis about NFL point spreads.  I then worked for a few years at a major catalog company targeting marketing campaigns before returning to graduate school at the University of Connecticut where I wrote my dissertation about statistical disclosure control.  While there, I collected Hasheem Thabeet’s homework one time, which I believe, in some small way, helped UConn win a national championship two years later.  I regret my actions as a UMass basketball fan and would like to openly apologize to former UMass point guard and current UMass head coach Derek Kellog.

For more details about me, you can view my CV.

Cheers.