I received a PhD in
Statistics from the Institute of
Statistics and
Decision Sciences (ISDS) , Duke
University in 1998. From 1998 until 2001 I was an Assistant
Professor at Universidad Simón
Bolívar
in the Department of Scientific Computing and Statistics. I have been
at UCSC since the 2001. I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Statistics in the Baskin
School of Engineering.
My main areas of research interests include Bayesian non-stationary
time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal
processing and statistical genetics. I am currently the principal
investigator in a
NIH/NIGMS project that aims to
develop Bayesian models for detecting natural selection in malaria
antigens. I am also a Co-PI in a California
Sea Grant project awarded to Mary Silver
and Carrie
Pomeroy
to quantify
exposure of the fish caught from the Santa Cruz Wharf to a
neurotoxin (domoic acid).