CV

Education

• M.S. in Statistics, Brigham Young University, 2024
• B.S. in Statistics, Brigham Young University, 2024

Work experience

• Research Assistant, Statistics Department, Brigham Young University (Aug 2020 - July 2023)
  • Aided BYU Administration in handling COVID-19 pandemic
  • Researched hotspot/disease detection on BYU campus using machine learning methods
  • Constructed automated scripts in R, Python, and Linux to organize, mine, engineer, and analyze data
  • Type up methodology to submit to a refereed journal (to be submitted this Spring)
• AI/ML BIG Summer Analyst, Dept of Radiological Sciences, University of California Los Angeles (June 2022 - Aug 2022)
  • Admitted to 2022 BIG Summer Program
  • Created deep learning pipeline in python (PyTorch) to segment and classify malignant lung nodules using CT scans
  • Preprocessing and handling of medical imaging in Python
• Research Assistant, Dept of Statistics, Brigham Young University (Sept 2020 - April 2021)
  • Applied NLP to analyze Twitter data and detect COVID-19 impact on suicidal ideation in autistic community
  • Employed machine learning and ensemble methods to analyze corpuses of text
  • Created Bash and Python scripts to process and sort terabytes of data

Skills

• Proficient in R, including the data manipulation (tidyverse), statistical modeling packages (MMRM, emmeans), and visualization (ggplot2).
• Proficient in statistical methods used in clinical trials development
  • Mixed models
  • Power calculations
  • Simulations

Publications

COVID-19 hotspot detection in a university setting

Duncan G, Christensen WF, Handley C. "COVID-19 hotspot detection in a university setting." PLoS One. 2024 May 16;19(5):e0289254. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289254. PMID: 38753626; PMCID: PMC11098366.

Awards/Scholarship

• John Bartko Award, American Statistical Association (2024)
• Fall Technical Conference Student Grant, American Society for Quality (Sept 2022)
• Utah NASA Space Consortium Fellowship, NASA (2021- 2022)
• Statistics Student Employee of the Year Award, BYU (2021-2022)
• Mu Sigma Rho President, BYU (2021-2022), Mu Sigma Rho Secretary, BYU (2022-2023)
• Richard Dexter Rust Scholarship, BYU Dept of Statistics, BYU (Sept 2020-April 2021)
• Dean’s List, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, BYU (Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2020)

Service and leadership

• Mu Sigma Rho president, Brigham Young University (2021-2022)
• Mu Sigma Rho secretary, Brigham Young University (2022-2023)
• Core volunteer, Provo Bicycle Collective (2021-2023). Led volunteer nights to coordinate and assist volunteer with fixing bikes for young kids in low-income families.

I currently volunteer with my wife at a local Christian congregation to teach little kids about Jesus.