My research focuses on evaluating and applying advanced statistical methods to behavioral data. Behavioral data displays certain qualities (e.g., categorical variables, non-normally distributed variables, frequent clustering of individuals within families, schools, or neighborhoods, missing values) that require specialized statistical methods and approaches.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
December 2023 - present
Research Scientist II
Faculty
Biostatistician, Cancer Institute
Associate Professor, Department
of Computational Biomedicine
Florida International University
August 2012 - December 2023
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Ph.D., Quantitative Research Methods in
Psychology
Arizona State University
Dissertation: Analysis of grouped count outcomes with the generalized
linear model
M.A., Cognitive Psychology
University of California, San
Diego
Thesis: Effect of first language on syntactic priming in a second
language
B.S., Cognitive Psychology
Minor: Mathematics
University of California, San
Diego
Thesis: Syntactic priming in beginning and advanced speakers of a second
language