I am currently a postdoctoral associate in the Statistical Science Department at Duke University. I have a Ph.D. in Operations Research from North Carolina State University and a M.S. and B.S. in Mathematics from the College of Charleston and James Madison University, respectively. I worked as an data scientist in industry for six years during my Ph.D. program, applying statistical and Operations Research methods to problems in advertising and signal processing.
Current Research Interests
Mathematical Programming, Clustering, Classification, Consensus Clustering, Text Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Computational Journalism, Ethics of Data Science, Matrix Decomposition Methods, Bioinformatics, Advertising, Analytics, Data Mining, Applied Linear Algebra, Algorithm Design, Combinatorial Optimization