Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D. (2004), Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• Research Area: Statistics
• Thesis Title: Selection Procedures for Lognormal Populations
• M.S.(2000), Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• Concentration: Probability and Statistics
• B.A. (1996), Mathematics, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY
• Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Mu Epsilon, Golden Key

Publications

• Log-normal Selection with Applications to Lifetime Data, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 2006
• Selection of the Best from Log-normal Populations Using Type-II Censored Data – Unknown σ² Case, Sequential Analysis, Vol. 25, April 2006
• L¹-limit of Trimmed Sums of Order Statistics from Location-Scale Distributions with Applications to Type-II Censored Data Analysis, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, Vol. 37, Issue 16, 2008

Professional Experience

• August 2010 – Present (Adjunct Faculty) & Spring 1998 – Spring 200 (Teaching Assistant), Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University
• Courses Taught:
• Prob and Stats for the Liberal Arts, Elements of Modern Math, Pre-Calculus,
• Intro to Prob and Stats, Business Calc, Calc for Life Sci I and II, Calc I/II/III,
• Linear Algebra and Diff Eqns for Engineers (485), Applied Prob – Stochastic Processes and Markov Chains (526)
• November 2004 – August 2010, Lead Statistician, KS&R (Knowledge Systems and Research) Inc., Syracuse, NY
• Areas of expertise:
• Discrete Choice Models, Econometric Models, Market Simulations,
• Survey Design, Survey Weighting Methods,
• Market Segmentation, Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation Methods, Structural Equations Modeling
• Summers 2008-10, Summers 2004-06, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Finance, WSOM
• Courses Taught:
• Introduction to Statistics for Management, Decision Tools for
  Management, Data Analysis and Decision Making
• Fall 2004, Adjunct Faculty, Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY-ESF
• Courses Taught:
• Survey of Calculus and its Applications – I

Research Interests

• Market Research and Survey Design problems
• Econometric Models, Discrete Choice Models, Associated Experimental Designs
• Statistical Computing/Programming, Business Intelligence Automation
• Ranking and Selection problems, in particular, two-stage and non-parametric procedures
• Log-Location-Scale distributions used in survival analysis,
  reliability and quality control data
• Censored data analysis using trimmed sums of order statistics

Computing Expertise

• Programming Languages – Fortran, Pascal, Visual Basic, .NET
• Web Development – HTML, Javascript, CSS, JScript
• Mathematical programs – MATLAB, Maple
• Statistical software – SAS, JMP, R, SPSS, Minitab
• Reporting Automation – Lotus Domino Designer, Excel-VBA, Powerpoint-VBA, Access-VBA
• Econometric/Discrete-Choice – Sawtooth CBC/HB (Choice Based Conjoint Hieararchical Bayes)
• General – Microsoft Office, LaTeX Typesetting