Experience

  1. Quant Researcher / Data Scientist

    Double River Investments
    • Part-time work during academic year alongside PhD studies

  2. Academic Collaborator

    Exercise Science Departments at Various Universities
    • Collaborations include BYU, UNC Chapel Hill, and University of Michigan

  3. Actuarial Consulting Intern - Health and Benefits

    Aon

  4. Course Instructor / Teaching Assistant

    UCSC/BYU Statistics Departments

Education

  1. PhD Statistical Science

    University of California, Santa Cruz
    • Dissertation: Flexible Mixture Modeling Approaches to Renewal Processes
    • Advisor: Dr. Athanasios Kottas

  2. MS Statistics

    Brigham Young University
    • Dissertation: Template Priors in Bayesian Curve Registration
    • Advisor: Dr. Garritt Page

  3. BS Actuarial Science

    Brigham Young University
    • Magna Cum Laude with 3.94 GPA
    • Passed 4 SOA Exams
Awards
Best Talk Award
j-ISBA BAYSM Conference 2023 ∙ November 2023
  • One of two winners out of 75+ presenters in the short talk competition
ARCS Scholar Fellowship
ARCS Foundation ∙ September 2023
  • Awarded to top STEM PhD students in California
  • Received in both 2021 and 2023
  • Specifically asked to present to donors in 2023
Koerner Family Fellowship
UCSC Statistics Department ∙ September 2022
  • Awarded to top STEM PhD students from universities accross the country
Department Fellowships
UCSC Statistics Department ∙ June 2023
  • Dual first-year fellowships awarded to attract top students to the program (received 2019)
  • Summer fellowship awarded to support research during the summer (received 2022/23)
Honorable Mention Student Presentation
Actuarial Research Conference 2019 ∙ June 2019
2nd Place, 3 Minute Thesis Competition
BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences ∙ February 2019
  • 3 minutes and 1 slide to explain thesis topic to a lay audience
  • Competed against 15 other finalists from across the college