ABOUT ME
I defended my PhD in October of 2013 and currently conduct research modeling, analyzing, and optimizing complex systems in ecology and social systems. My dissertation was primarily concerned with a problem in mathematical ecology where I describe the spread of a biological invader over heterogeneous domains, but I am broadly interested in both applications and mathematical methods for dynamical systems, modeling, and mathematical data analysis. I am particularly interested in computational and data-driven approaches to problem solving, and I am often confronting mathematical models with data using statistical inference. My research is always interdisciplinary in nature, and typically includes a blend of mathematics, computer science, and probabilistic modeling. I enjoy working directly with scientists and engineers to obtain practical results, and have been fortunate to collaborate directly with ecologists and biologists both domestically and internationally to shape my research problems.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mathematical and Probabilistic Modeling
2008 - 2013
Colorado State University
Ph.D in Mathematics
Advisers: Gerhard Dangelmayr & Patrick Shipman
Scientific Computing and Simulation
Dynamical Systems
Mathematical Biology & Ecology
2005 - 2007
University of Florida
M.S. in Mathematics
2001 - 2005
University of Mississippi
Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
B.S. in Mathematics, B.A. in French summa cum laude
PROGRAMMING SKILLS
Python (incl. Numpy, Scipy, Cython, Matplotlib, etc.)
MATLAB (incl. Parallel toolbox, MatlabMPI, OOP)
Git