This is a place where I will be placing personal reflections on my life, including information about my family (protecting privacy of those who are still with us). I was inspired by creative parents–my father as a doctor, scientist and humanist, and my mother as a child actress, world traveller and artist–and see that creative blend in my life and in those of my siblings.
My Interests
My Chronology
OK, not just personal, but this goes beyond my UW persona.
- 1970-74 Caltech
- Birdwatching across southern California, 4 instructors, 3 students
- Rockclimbing with Chuck Wilts
- 1974 BSc honors, mathematics
- 1971–74 UC-Berkeley
- Research Assistant, Assistant Programmer, Coder; Entomology Department, University of California–Berkeley (B Ewing, DL Wood).
- Research: Quantitative Population Ethology with Bland Ewing
- 1974-75 Thomas J Watson Jr Fellowship, Europe & India regions (wiki)
- Topic: mathematical modeling of forest and river ecosystems
- World Population Conference, Bucharest, Romania
- First international Congress of Ecology, Den Haag, Netherlands
- Wildlife travels, India, Nepal & Ladakh
- 1975-82 UC-Berkeley
- Travel
- 1976 Organization for Tropical Studies summer course, Costa Rica
- 1976 Barrow Colorado Island (STRI) research travels
- 1977 First International Statistical Ecology Conference, Texas A&M and UC–Berkeley (ISEC 2022)
- Employment
- 1976–82 Teaching Associate, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant; Statistics Department and Biostatistics Program, University of California–Berkeley (KA Doksum, J Neyman, EL Scott, S Selvin).
- Research
- 1977-78? Sanderling study, Bodega Bay
- 1979 Insect Plant Interaction, Monte Verde, Costa Rica
- 1980-81 Radiation and Cancer Mouse Survival Study, UC-Berkeley
- Degrees
- 1978 MS Statistics
- 1982 PhD Biostatistics, Kjell Doksum Advisor
- Travel
- 1982-2023 UW-Madison
- Faculty Member
- 1982–88 Assistant Professor
- 1988–96 Associate Professor
- 1990–2023 Professor
- 1982-2019 50% Statistics (L&S) and 50% Horticulture (CALS).
- 2019-2023 100% Statistics
- 2023— Professor Emeritus
- Sabbaticals
- 1990 Spring: Visiting Fellow, Departments of Statistics, University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde, Scotland (M Titterington, BD Ripley).
- 2001-02 at home: consulting and birth of Zoey
- 2016-17 at home: data science
- Research
- 1990-2002 Flowering Time for Brassica Rape Seed
- Tom Osborn
- 1999-2011 Systems Genetics of Diabetes and Obesity
- Alan Attie
- 1999– Systems Genetics Methods
- 1996-2000? Summer Institute for Statistical Genetics Instructor
- Zhao-Bang Zeng, NCSU
- Gary Churchill, Jackson Labs
- Karl Broman, UW-Madison
- 1990-2002 Flowering Time for Brassica Rape Seed
- Leadership
- 2009–11 Associate Chair, Department of Statistics
- 2011–15 Chair, Department of Statistics
- 2017-18 Co-founder, Data Science Hub
- PI on internal UW2020 research grant
- 2017–23 Director, Biometry Program
- 2019–22 David R. Anderson Founding Director, American Family Insurance Data Science Institute
- Various campus-level committe leads
- Faculty Member