I am currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. I came to Cornell in 2003 as a visitor to the Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering, and was hired in BSCB the following year. From 1987 to 2003 I was a faculty member in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. My main research interests involve basic statistical methodology including: the bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods, clustering, exact inference, mixed models, generalized linear models, and applications of the saddlepoint approximation. For the past three years I have taught the second semester of a statistical methods sequence for graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines, as well as core courses for Ph.D. students in the Department of Statistical Sciences. As a faculty member in BSCB I am also actively involved in the Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit which provides free advice on statistical issues to faculty and students at Cornell.
