Education
Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1999.
Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1999.
Instructor University Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 1999—2003. Mathematics statistician National Center for Toxicological Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, 2003—2007. Associate professor California State University- Long Beach, Department Mathematics & Statistics, since 2007.
Scientist Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, National Center for Toxicological Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, 2004—2007.
Achievements include research in attribution of tumor lethality for occult tumors in the absence of cause-of-death information. Research in development of improved survival-adjusted tests for animal carcinogenicity/tumorigenicity data. Research in estimation of lag time between onset of and death from an occult tumor via attribution of tumor lethality.
Research in dose-response modeling for microbial risk assessment. Research in optimal tree-based ensemble methods for class prediction and classification by ensembles from radom partitions. Research in high-dimensional biomarkers in personalized medicine.
Member of Scholar and Creative Activities Committee, Society for Risk Analysis, American Statistical Association (Central Arkansas chapter representative 2004-2007), Food and Drug Administration Statistical Association (center representative 2005-2007), American Association for Cancer Research, International Biometric Society.