Welcome!
This is my personal webpage documenting my professional and personal activities. As Chair of the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State, my research focuses on probability theory, stochastic processes, quantitative finance, and Bayesian inference.
Details on my research and other professional activities, curriculim vitae, teaching, personal interests, and contact information can be found on the tabs above.
Featured Outreach and Engagement Activities
- Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief for High Frequency, 2016-present
- Introductory lecture on Bayesian uncertainty quantification in climatology, agricultural economics, and astrostatistics at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI, Feb 24, 2017
- Pan-African Center for Mathematics, nomination to its Advisory Board on March 29, 2012. This center opened its doors in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, in 2013, to graduate students in Mathematics (MS and Ph.D.) from across the African continent.
- Collaboration on uncertainty quantification in renewable energy projects in the Kingdom of Morocco, with a focus on Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), wind mapping, and electricity storage. Interacting with the Université Cadi Ayyad, Morocco's Royal Academy of Science and Technology, and the World Bank. Started in July 2011, ongoing project