Welcome

I am a Southern California native and graduated from CSU Northridge with a BA degree in math and minors in biology, chemistry, and Japanese. After finishing at CSUN, I drove from LA to Raleigh to attend the graduate program at NC State University in the Dept. of Statistics. While at NCSU, I completed my Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in statistics. After graduation I returned to California and began work as a professor in the Department of Statistics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

My research interests include categorical data analysis (more specifically, optimal confidence interval methods for discrete distributions) and statistics education. Over the last several years I have been working with educators at universities and high schools in Japan on various topics including active learning and simulation-based inference.