Education:1996: Ph.D., Co-major in Statistics and Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
1992: Diplom, Informatik (M.S. in Computer Science), Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
1991: Diplom, Statistik (M.S. in Statistics), Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
Professional Experience:4/2005 - Present: Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
8/1999 - 4/2005: Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
2/2000 - Present: Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Resources at Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
9/1998 - 7/1999: Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Computational Statistics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
9/1997 - 8/1998: Postdoctoral Position in the Center for Computational Statistics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, under Dr. Wegman.
1/1997 - 6/1997: Postdoctoral Position in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, under Dr. Cressie and Dr. Cook.
1/1993 - 12/1996: Research Assistant in the Department of Statistics and in the GIS Facility at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, under Dr. Koehler, Jim Majure, Dr. Cook, and Dr. Cressie.
8/1989 - 9/1992: Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Statistics and in the Department of Computer Science at the Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, under Dr. Dissmann, Dr. Schwefel, Dr. Hering, and Dr. Eicker.
Research Experience:8/2000 - 7/2003: Research Associate, NSF, Collaborative Research: Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical Summaries, [with researchers at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; Rice University, Houston, Texas; Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania & multiple Government agencies] (Homepage).
6/1999 - 11/1999: Principal Investigator, National Center for Health Statistics, Integration of XGobi, ArcView, XploRe, and the Weighted Head-Banging Smoothing Algorithm for the NCHS Research Workstation (Final Report).
7/1998 - 1/1999: Principal Investigator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Hierarchical Clickable Micromaps in the GPL Environment for the Communication of Geographically Referenced Statistical Data (Final Report).
1/1998 - 3/1998: Principal Investigator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Methods Development for the Geographic Display of Air Toxics Data (Final Report).
Service:2005 - Present: North American Editor, Computational Statistics.
Co-Chair of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Interface Foundation of North America.
1999-2000: Member of the Program Commmittee of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), Berlin, Germany, July 26-28, 2000.
1998 - 2005: Associate Editor, Computational Statistics.
Awards:1996: Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
1993-1995: DAAD-Doktorandenstipendium aus Mitteln des zweiten Hochschulsonderprogramms (a three year Ph.D. research fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service).
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