02/2024: Named finalist of the NFL Big Data Bowl 2024 with entry Momentum-based fractional tackles
11/2023: Invited Data Science Seminar speaker at Loyola University Chicago
11/2023: Big Data Bowl workshop at the 2023 Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference
10/2023: Paper Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data was named to the ASA Editors’ Choice Collection
09/2023: Invited talk at the 2023 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS)
07/2023: Paper Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data was accepted for publication in The American Statistician
Summer 2023: TA Advisor for Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Camp 2023, part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) 2023 program hosted by CMU Statistics & Data Science
02/2023: Named finalist of the NFL Big Data Bowl 2023 with entry STRAIN: Sacks, Tackles, Rushing, Aggression INdex
10/2022: Awarded 3rd place of the Reproducible Research Competition (Open Methods Track) at the 2022 Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference (CMSAC) with my paper Estimating Aging Curves: Using Multiple Imputation to Examine Career Trajectories of MLB Offensive Players
09/2022: Invited talk at the 2022 Cascadia Symposium on Statistics in Sports (CASSIS).
08/2022: Started my PhD in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University
05/2022: Guest appearance on Episode IX of the Open Source Sports Podcast
03/2022: Paper An Examination of Olympic Sport Climbing Competition Format and Scoring System was accepted for publication in the Journal of Data Science
Spring 2022: Worked as an instructor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola University Chicago
12/2021: Completed my MS in Applied Statistics at Loyola University Chicago
11/2021: Awarded 1st place of the Reproducible Research Competition (Open Methods Track) at the 2021 Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference (CMSAC) with my paper An Examination of Sport Climbing’s Competition Format and Scoring System.
10/2021: Won the Best Student Poster Award at the 2021 UConn Sports Analytics Symposium (UCSAS) with my poster Concerns Regarding Sport Climbing Competition Format and Scoring System: Who’s Suffering?
10/2021: Took part in the 2021 Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition (organized by Texas A&M University). Our team finished 2/50 in the First Round Leaderboard, where the goal was to build a model for predicting vaccine hesitancy
09/2021: Participated in a live coding session where I tried to predict the 2021 Brownlow Medal Winner for the Australian Football League (AFL). This was Rob Nguyen’s idea, where he wanted to pair up a stats person with no knowledge of Aussie rules with a journalist with domain expertise to see how well they can do at making predictions. Here are links to a video recording and an article on ABC News (Australia).