My research interests include small area estimation, demography, survival analysis, and statistical methods for use in official statistics and complex survey data settings. Specifically, I am interested in connections between traditional demographic and statistical methods as they relate to mortality estimation. In addition to more methodological work, I am also interested in applied demographic projects, particularly those that involve estimating demographic rates from survey data or other complex settings.
I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at Macalester College. I completed my Ph.D. in Biostatistics in 2023 at the University of Washington, advised by Jon Wakefield. I completed my B.A. in Mathematics and Religion (separate degrees, there is no degree in both Math and Religion that I’m aware of), with a concentration in Statistics at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. My research interests include small area estimation, demography, survival analysis, and statistical methods for use in official statistics and complex survey data settings. I am particularly interested in applications related to demography and thinking about creative ways to improve the computation efficiency of statistical methods, and much of my work is thusly focused. My current research extends existing methods for estimating mortality across time from complex survey data using continuous, parametric survival models.