Education

• Postdoctoral Training (2010-2012) :  Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Ph.D. in Statistics (2005-2010) University of Mississippi

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 Research Interests

• statistical and computational methods for the analysis of genetics/genomics data
• high dimensional biology and statistical computing
• experimental design on clinical trials

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 Professional Development & Mememship

• Editor of International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources
• Member of  American Statistical Association, ENAR,International Biometric Society , ICSA 

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 Teaching

I teach statistics and mathematics courses at all levels for undergraduates and graduates including

• Applied Statistical Methods
• Computational Statistics and Programming
• Mathematical Statistics
• Analysis of Variance
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics (online and face to face)
• Generalized Linear Models
• Statistical Machine Learning
• Calculus I ( Hybrid and face to face)
• Calculus for Management, Life, and Social Sciences
• Introductory Statistics

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Grants/Awards

• PI of 2017 University of Tennessee System CORNET Award (Collaborative Research Network) in cancer, 6/2017-6/2018
• Co-PI of MAA Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grant (PI: Andrew Ledoan)
• 2017 Dean's Award: Promising Young Researcher Award
• Co-PI, NSF I-MATH grant ( PI: Dr. Jin Wang, NSF1520672 ),  an Interdisciplinary MATH Training Platform (09/01/2015-08/31/2018).
• 2016 Univeristy of Tennessee Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award
• 2016 UTC Research and Creative Activity Grant
• 2015 Ruth Holmberg for Faculty of Excellence Award
• UTC Faculty Research and Development Grant (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)