Curriculum Vitae
Education
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2008 |
Ph. D. in Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
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2004 |
M.S. in Statistics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT |
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2001 |
B.A. in Mathematics and Music, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN |
Current Research Interests
Time series modeling, Change-point analysis, Statistics education, Environmental statistics.
Honors and Awards
Colorado State University:
- J. E. Moyal Applied Probability Award (2008)
- James L., M. Leslie & Edna Madison Memorial Award (2007)
- Elmer E. Remmenga Scholarship in Applied Statistics (2006)
- NSF Fast Track to Work Scholarship (2004-05, 2005-06)
Montana State University:
- Mildred Livingston Grant (2003)
- MSU Presidential Scholarship (2001-02)
Concordia College:
- Concordia College Faculty Scholarship (1997-2001)
- Gerald and Jeanette Heuer Mathematics Award (2001)
- Concordia College Dean’s List (1997-2001)
Work Experience and Fellowships
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2008-Present |
Visiting Professor, Mathematics Department, Reed College, Portland, OR |
| 2005-2008 |
Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, CSU
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2004-2008 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of Statistics, CSU |
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2006 |
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI), Academia |
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2001-2004 |
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematical Sciences, MSU |
|
2004 |
Statistician, Control Consulting, Inc., Great Falls, MT |
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2003 |
Graduate Student Fellowship, Statistics Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA |
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2002-2003 |
NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship
(CSEMS), MSU |
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2000-2001 |
Mathematics Tutor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Concordia College |
Teaching
Courses taught at Reed College:
- MATH 141 Introduction to Probability and Statistics
- MATH 391 Probability
Courses taught at Colorado State University:
- ST 301 Introduction to Statistical Methods
- ST 321 Stochastic Modeling
Courses taught at Montana State University:
- MATH 160 Precalculus
- STAT 216 Elementary Statistics
- STAT 217 Intermediate Statistical Concepts
Publications
Hancock, S., R. Davis, and Y-C. Yao, Consistency of Minimum Description Length Model Selection for Piecewise Autoregressions, to be submitted.
Presentations
Estimation of Structural Breaks in Nonstationary Time Series Data, Dec. 2009, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Portland.
Estimation of Structural Breaks in Nonstationary Time Series Data,
2008 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Denver, CO.
Estimation of Structural Breaks in Nonstationary Time Series
Data, 2008 IMS Eleventh Meeting
of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability, Boulder, CO.
Estimation of Structural Breaks in Nonstationary Time Series Data, 2008 American Statistical Association Colorado-Wyoming Chapter Meeting, Boulder, CO.
Developing Learning Materials for Surface Water Monitoring, 2005 Statistics for Aquatic Resources – Monitoring, Modeling and Management, Joint Program Meeting for DAMARS and STARMAP, Oregon State University, OR.
Mathematics and the Piano Keyboard, 2001 St. Benedict and
St. Johns Mathematics
Convention, St. Cloud, MN.
Posters
Estimating Structural Breaks in Nonstationary Time Series: The Theory Behind AutoPARM, 2007 Graybill Conference, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Population Disease Models for the National Elk Refuge, 2006 National Science Foundation IGERT Project Meeting, Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, VA.
Professional Development
Become a Catalyst for Change in Statistics Education workshop and the Statistics Education Research Cluster, United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, The Ohio State University, 2009.
Teaching Introductory Data Analysis through Modeling, Joint Mathematics Meetings MAA Ancillary Workshop, Washington D.C., 2009.
Integrating Computing in the Statistics Curricula, NSF and CAUSE funded workshop, University of California, Berkeley, 2008.
Introducing Concepts of Statistical Inference, Joint Mathematics Meetings MAA Ancillary Workshop, San Diego, 2008.
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Reader for the AP Statistics exam.
- Member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Section on Statistics Education, and Section on Statistics and the Environment.
- Member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
- Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and its International Association for Statistical Education (IASE).
- Member of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.
- Member of the International Environmetrics Society (TIES).
- Member of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and its Statistics Education SIGMAA.
- Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
- Helped initiate and administer the CSU Statistics Department Student Organized Activities and Research Seminars (SOARS).
- Former head of the CSU Statistics Department Student Advisory Committee.
Statistical Computing Skills
Proficient in R, Splus and Excel. Familiar with SAS, Minitab, Matlab.
References
| F. Jay Breidt Professor and Chair Department of Statistics Colorado State University 102 Statistics Building Ft. Collins, CO 80523 Tel: (970) 491-6786 Fax: (970) 491-7895 jbreidt@stat.colostate.edu |
Richard A. Davis Howard Levene Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics Columbia University 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 4690 New York, NY 10027 Tel: (212) 851-2137 Fax: (212) 851-2164 rdavis@stat.columbia.edu |
| Albyn Jones Professor and Chair Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland, OR 97202 Tel: (503) 517-7418 Fax: (503) 788-6691 jones@reed.edu |
Yi-Ching Yao Research Fellow Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: 886-2-27835611 ext. 311 Fax : 886-2-27831523 yao@stat.sinica.edu.tw |