The Data Incubator, Data Scientist Certification – Fellowship Program 2023
Ph.D. Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2018
M.S. Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2014
M.A. Secondary Mathematics Education, City College of New York, NYC, NY 2005
B.S. Business Administration, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1999
Rutgers University: Assistant Research Professor, November 2021 - January 2023
Rutgers University: Postdoctoral Research Associate, June 2018 - November 2021
Rutgers University: Graduate Research Assistant, June 2014 - June 2018
Summer Intern: Stevens Institute of Technology, Summer 2013
STA 9719 - Foundations of Statistical Inference for masters students (Assistant Professor) - Spring 2019
01:960:211 - Statistics I (Instructor) - Fall 2014 - Summer 2016
High school mathematics teacher and NYC Teaching Fellow - August 2003 - June 2005
English Language teacher for Chilean professionals - Winter 2001
Calculus-based Introductory Statistics for business majors (Teaching Assistant) - 1997 - 1998
Accounting Course Coordinator for summer program in Italy - Summer 1999
Mathematics Tutor for introductory mathematics courses - 1996 - 1998
Accenture: Consultant, 2000 - 2003
American Management Systems: Programmer Analyst, 1999 - 2000
MATLAB, Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn), R Statistical Computing, High-Performance Computing (HPC), slurm scripting, shell/Batch scripting, LaTeX, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
predictive models, spatio-temporal hierarchical modeling, data science, interdisciplinary collaboration, Bayesian statistics, hierarchical empirical models, experimental design, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, non-parametric statistics, Gaussian process regression
Roger Creel - Columbia University (co-advisor with Jacky Austermann), 2018 - 2022
Jennifer Walker - Rutgers University, 2019 - 2022
Kristen Joyse - Rutgers University, 2017 - 2021
Daniel Gilford - Rutgers University, 2018 - 2020
Peter Chutcharavan - University of Florida, 2018 - 2019
Daniel Allen - Berkeley, 2020 - 2021
Rutgers Research for Undergraduates (REU) Christina Williamson - Pomona University, Summer 2016
What do historical observations, proxies, and models reveal about the magnitude of natural climate variability and future projections on sea‑level rise? Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience - Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ - virtual, September 2021. * invited talk
A Probabilistic Estimate of Mid‑Holocene Sea Level. PALSEA meeting - virtual, September 2021.
How Can Novel Statistical Methods Improve Analyses in Environmental Sciences? Mathematics and Statistics Department, Maynooth University - Maynooth, Ireland - virtual, August 2021. * invited talk
Estimation of global sea level over the late Holocene. Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting - virtual, October 2020. * invited talk
Storylines in Last Interglacial Antarctic Ice‑Sheet Mass Loss Inform Future Extreme Sea Levels. PALSEA meeting - virtual, September 2020.
Understanding Drivers of Holocene Relative Sea Level Change Using Gaussian Process Regression. AGU Annual Fall Meeting - San Francisco, CA - December 2019.
Estimating global sea level over the late Holocene using a spatio‑temporal empirical Bayesian hierarchical framework. IGCP Project 639 – Sea Level Change from Minutes to Millennia - Xiamen, China, October 2019.
Improving estimates of relative sea level through the use of nonparametric empirical distributions of proxy indicators. Paleo Constraints on Sea Level (PALSEA) meeting. Dublin, Ireland, July 2019.
Improving estimates of global sea level. HOLocene SEA levels (HOLSEA) meeting. Dublin, Ireland, July 2019. *invited talk
Estimating global sea level over the late Holocene using a spatio‑temporal empirical Bayesian hierarchical framework. International Quaternary Association (INQUA) Congress. Dublin, Ireland, July 2019.
The Amplitude and Timing of Holocene Relative Sea‑Level Changes from the Caribbean to South America. IGCP Project 639 – Sea Level Change from Minutes to Millennia. Southern Italy, September 2018.
Postglacial relative sea‑level histories along the Northeastern Canadian coastline. European Geosciences Union, General Assembly. Vienna, Austria, April 2019.
Statistical modeling of rates and trends in sea level. PALSEA2 meeting. Playa del Carman, Mexico, November 2017.
A hierarchical statistical framework for integrating non‑Gaussian coral archives into reconstructions of relative sea level. IGCP Project 639 – Sea Level Change from Minutes to Millennia. Durban, South Africa, September 2017.
Holocene Relative Sea Level from the Western Atlantic. A ‘Pole to Pole’ transect. AGU Annual Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 2016.
Hierarchical Statistical Modeling of sea level. HOLocene SEA levels (HOLSEA) meeting. Mt. Hood, Oregon. September 2016. *invited talk.
Spatial and temporal extent of the mid‑Holocene highstand in the western Atlantic. PALSEA2 meeting. Mt. Hood, Oregon. September 2016.
Spatio‑temporal hierarchical modeling of rates and variability of Holocene sea‑level changes. Command, Control, and Interoperability for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) Annual Meeting. Piscataway, NJ. September 2016. *invited talk.
Drivers of Holocene sea‑level change – Using a global database of RSL records from the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. European Geosciences Union, General Assembly. Vienna, Austria. April 2016.
Holocene relative sea‑level changes from near‑, intermediate‑, and far‑field locations. GIA Modeling Symposium. Fairbanks, Alaska. May 2015.
Spatio‑temporal sea‑level modeling. Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) Research Retreat - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. February 2015.