About

My training is in biostatistics, epidemiology, and geographic information science. I finished my PhD in February 2017. I currently split my time between three major roles: as a private statistical consultant, as a post-doctoral researcher at McGill University with Dr. Robert Platt, and as a research analyst at the University of Montreal with Dr. Kate Zinszer.

Methodologically, I’m interested in Bayesian approaches to spatio-temporal methods, Bayesian computation, and modern approaches to data visualization. Substantively, I’ve worked in environmental health, infectious disease, and pharmacoepidemiology. I love the range of applications that being a methodologist has allowed me to dabble in.

I’m an avid R programmer and I believe strongly in the principles of transparency and reproducibility in research and analysis. The open-source community of R programmers has been invaluable to me as a student and professionally. I currently have developed one R package, to facilitate estimation of the front-wave velocity of disease outbreaks. The package is available on github. See my projects and posts pages for more information on what I’m up to.

I also love knitting, yoga, podcasts, and dogs.