About me

I am a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington where I am advised by Jon Wakefield. My primary research interests are small area estimation, spatial modeling, and survey statistics, particularly as applied in official statistics and population health settings. My current work involves methodological developments in small area estimation of health outcomes using complex survey data in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Under my advisor, I developed and led the execution of a pipeline to produce subnational under-five and neonatal mortality rate estimates in over 30 LMICs, in close coordination with the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Mortality Estimation (UN-IGME).

I completed my BS in Applied Mathematics at University of Rochester and MS in Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. While completing my Masters degree, I also worked in the biostatistics department of the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, where I performed statistical analysess and generated reports for a wide range of applied projects, as well as collaborated on an active clinical trial using a novel Phase I design.

I grew up in northern New Jersey and in my spare time I enjoy reading, going to concerts, taking dance classes, and hanging out with my rabbit, Theo.