About

I teach mathematics and statistics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and I direct the Math Assistance Center. Mathematician, statistician, teacher — most of what I do connects those three.

What I work on

Most of my time goes to teaching and to building course materials that last. I care about courses that explain why something works instead of just which buttons to press, and I try to keep the materials public and reusable so they still help after the semester ends. The two course sites here — Intro to Mathematical Software and Intro to Statistics — are part of that.

My research is in Bayesian statistics and evidence synthesis. I work on bias-robust Bayesian meta-analysis: how to make sense of a body of studies when publication bias, small-study effects, and selective reporting make the usual summaries hard to trust. Much of that work is also about reproducibility. I use R, Quarto, LaTeX, and Git as everyday tools, and I would rather an analysis be something someone else can rerun than a result that only worked once.

Outside work

I do a lot of bouldering. I also garden, take care of animals with my wife, Jenn, and spend a fair amount of time building and fixing things — woodworking and the steady stream of small projects that come with a house and a yard.

I like work that holds up: a problem climbed cleanly, a garden bed that keeps producing, a repair I don’t have to do twice. That carries over to the academic side, though I won’t pretend it all reduces to one tidy idea.

If you want to get in touch, the contact page has the best ways to reach me.