CV

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Last updated February 1, 2026. For a PDF version, please contact me directly.

Education

PhD in Biostatistics — Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015 Dissertation: Controlling for confounding when association is quantified by area under the ROC curve.
BS in Statistics, emphasis in Actuarial Science, Magna Cum Laude — St. Cloud State University, 2008
AAS in Graphic Design — Washtenaw Community College, 2006
DEUG in Physics and Chemistry — Université Hassan II du Maroc, 2001

Academic appointments

Associate Professor (Tenured) — Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, Joint School of Public Health, Old Dominion University. July 2025 – present.
Assistant Professor — Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health (formerly School of Community and Environmental Health), Old Dominion University. July 2018 – July 2025.
Assistant Professor — Graduate Program of Public Health, School of Health Professions, Eastern Virginia Medical School. October 2015 – July 2018.
Teaching Assistant — Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University. August 2010 – June 2013.
Instructor — Department of Mathematics & Statistics, St. Cloud State University. August 2009 – May 2010.

Professional appointments

Senior Biostatistician — Healthcare Analytics and Delivery Science Institute, Eastern Virginia Medical School. October 2017 – July 2018.
Senior Biostatistician — Center for Health Analytics and Discovery, Eastern Virginia Medical School. October 2015 – October 2017.
Research Associate — Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Virginia Commonwealth University. June 2013 – October 2015.

Publications (at a glance)

20 peer-reviewed journal articles (selected on Research)
19 peer-reviewed published abstracts
54 oral/poster conference presentations
8 invited academic presentations
5 technical reports for public-health agencies

See Research for recent highlights or the full CV for the complete list.

Grants & funding (cumulative: ~$3.97M)

Principal Investigator on 9 awarded grants totaling ~$114,000
Co-Investigator on 6 awarded grants totaling ~$3.85M
Contributor to 22 grant applications totaling ~$9.97M in requested funding

Selected awards as PI:

Predicting Health Outcomes Among Cancer Patients in Virginia: A Population-Based Machine Learning Approach — ODU SPH Intramural Grant, $24,309 (2023–2024)
Assessing Occupational Stress Among Lactation Consultants — ODU SPH Intramural Grant, $18,505 (2023–2024)
Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceived Barriers towards Breast Cancer Screening among Female African Immigrants — Johns Hopkins University, $15,000 (2025–2026)
Assessing the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on U.S. Hispanic/Latino Farmworkers — Johns Hopkins University, $9,500 (2021–2023)

Selected awards as Co-I:

Targeting Brain Macrophage Reservoirs of SIV during HAART — NIH/NIMH, $3.14M (2015–2018)
Social and Spatial Determinants of Melanoma in Hispanics — NIH/NIMHD, $250,000 (2015–2017)

Honors & awards

2025 — NIH AIM-AHEAD & NCATS Training Program, Selected Trainee (Cohort 3)
2023 — American Statistical Association Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences Section, Outstanding Teaching Award
2021 — NIH Data Scholar, Data Science for Science Teachers Boot Camp
2020 — NIH Data Scholar, Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery & Innovation in Africa
2019 — Data Science Innovation Lab Fellowship, NIH–NSF
2018 — Crystal Apple Award for Teaching Excellence, EVMS Student Government Association
2018 — Travel Awards: Predictive Inference Conference (Iowa State); 6th Workshop on Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (Georgia State)
2017 — Professional Enrichment and Growth Grant, EVMS Faculty Affairs

Developed and taught 40+ course offerings across graduate and undergraduate programs at Old Dominion University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia Commonwealth University, and St. Cloud State University. Current courses at ODU include MPHO 605 (Introduction to Biostatistics), MPHO 712 (Applied Biostatistics), MPH 612, MPH 616, MPH 713, and CHP 711/445.

Built Z-t-Chi Calculator — open-source biostatistics toolkit used in MPHO 605 and available to any instructor.

Student mentoring

Academic advisor to 106 MPH students since 2015
Practicum preceptor/advisor to 11 MPH students
Research supervisor for 11 MPH/PhD students and 5 medical students
Served on 11 dissertation committees (4 as chair); current chair roles in the ODU PhD in Health Services Research program.

Service (selected)

Appointed Member, Committee on International Relations in Statistics, ASA (2021–present)
Volunteer Abstract Reviewer, APHA Annual Meeting (2022)
Fund-raising Committee Member, Virginia Academy of Science (2019–present)
Peer reviewer — BMC Pediatrics, Pharmaceutical Statistics, Wiley Ad Hoc
Judge & Reviewer — Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition (USPROC); Virginia Junior Academy of Science; ISPOR 2020; Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop
Committee Chair, MPH Program Planning and Evaluation Committee, ODU (2019–present)
Biostatistical Support (pro bono) — ODU Center for Global Health, Chesapeake Health Department, Suffolk Public Schools, Statistics Without Borders

Professional memberships

American Statistical Association (ASA)
Statistics Without Borders (ASA)
American Public Health Association
Virginia Academy of Science
International Biometric Society

Selected certifications

Foundations of Public Health Practice — Imperial College London (2023)
Data Analysis and Visualization — SUNY Buffalo (2023)
Machine Learning using SAS Viya, Multilevel Modeling, Longitudinal Data Analysis, and several other advanced-statistics certificates from SAS Institute (2021)
Data Science for Science Teachers Boot Camp — NIH (2021)
Project Management Certification — Ecole Centrale de Lille (2014)