Talks

What do you get when you cross a chatterbox and a scientist? A whole lot of talks!

Whether I’m in a classroom, conference, or corporate meeting, I 💖 bringing (bio)stats to the conversation. Here are some of my recent and upcoming talks and presentations. Materials are available either by clicking on the links in the entries or the GIF wall!

Coming Soon to Theaters

  1. Invited Talk: Linking Potentially Misclassified Healthy
    Food Access to Diabetes Prevalence
    Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference - November 2025
    Slides

  2. Contributed Talk: A Two-Pronged Approach for Identifying and Addressing Problematic Psychotropic Overprescription Patterns
    in the Child Welfare System
    Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management Conference
    October 2025
    Slides (jointly presented with T. Kuhn)

  3. Guest Lecture: Statistics in Your Own Backyard
    Day of Discovery, Vanderbilt University - September 2025
    Slides

Highlight Reel

  1. Contributed E-Poster: Linking Potentially Misclassified Healthy
    Food Access to Diabetes Prevalence
    Joint Statistical Meetings - August 2025
    Poster - Slides

  2. Invited Panel: Beyond Academia - Exploring Statistics Careers in
    Industry, Government, and More
    Joint Statistical Meetings - August 2025
    I’m chairing this panel!

  3. Contributed Poster: Visualizing Cost Effectiveness Analysis with
    Second-Generation Acceptability Curves
    ENAR Spring Meeting - March 2025
    Poster

  4. Guest Lecture: Statistical Ideas You Can Never Unsee
    PSYCH1130, Cornell University - March 2025
    Slides - App

  5. Invited Talk: Refining Your Path: Correcting for Misclassification in
    Healthy Food Access
    Department of Mathematics, University of Scranton - March 2025
    Slides

  6. Guest Lecture: From Idea to Conclusion: A Statistical Perspective
    School of Science and Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
    February 2025
    Slides - Example

  7. Invited Panel: Graduate Admissions Advice
    Electronic Undergraduate Student Research Conference
    November 2024

  8. Contributed Poster: Adjusting for covariate misclassification to quantify the relationship between diabetes and local access to healthy food
    Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference - October 2024
    Poster

  9. Invited Talk: For Better or For Worse: The First Kiss
    Effect on TV Ratings
    International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2024
    Slides - Recording

  10. Guest Lecture: Stats can be fun, I swear!
    PSYCH1130, Cornell University - September 2024
    Slides - App

  11. Master’s Thesis Defense: Adjusting for Measurement Error to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Food
    Wake Forest University - April 2024
    Slides

  12. Contributed Talk: Adjusting for Measurement Error to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Food
    ENAR Spring Meeting - March 2024
    Slides

  13. Contributed Poster: Rate This Interruption: Using Interrupted Time Series Techniques to Analyze Popular Television
    Couples and Episode Ratings
    Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2023
    Poster

  14. Contributed Poster: Music Feature Classification: Using Techniques of Machine Learning to Detect Genre
    MAA MathFest - August 2022
    Poster

  15. Contributed Poster: Deal or No Deal: Modeling a Game Show with Utility Theory and Machine Learning
    Joint Mathematics Meetings - April 2022
    Poster

  16. Contributed Poster: Deal or No Deal: Modeling a Game Show with Utility Theory and Machine Learning
    SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference - August 2021
    Poster

  17. Featured Talk: Deal or No Deal: Modeling a Game Show with Utility Theory and Machine Learning
    Mount Stuart Mathematics Seminar Series - August 2021
    Slides

  18. Featured Talk: A Puck Above the Rest: The Effects of New Data on 2020 NHL Draft Decisions
    Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference - October 2020
    Slides

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