Education

North Carolina State University
PhD, Statistics, 2023
Advisors: Brian Reich and Srijan Sengupta

The Ohio State University
BS in Mathematics and BS in Physics, 2019
Minor in Statistics
with Honors in the Arts & Sciences
Summa cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa

Positions

Akita International University
Assistant Professor of AI & Data Science (tenure-track), Global Connectivity Program, 2024-Present

Tokyo Institute of Technology
JSPS Short-term fellow, Petter Holme and Tsuyoshi Murata, 2023

North Carolina State University
Duke Clinical Research Institute T32 Trainee, Hwanhee Hong, 2021-2022
Data-Enabled Science and Engineering of Atomic Structures (SEAS) Fellow, 2020-2021

The Ohio State University
Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Leonard Brillson, 2015-2019
Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, Christopher Hans, 2018 

University of Michigan
Big Data Summer Institute Participant, Jenna Wiens and Danai Koutra, 2018

Justus-Liebig University
Research Assistant, Institute of Applied Physics, Derck Schlettwein, 2017

Awards
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  • Travel grant, ISBA World Meeting, $300, 2022 (declined)
  • Clint Miller Award (best graduate student poster), Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference, ​2021
  • Travel grant, Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference, $700, ​2021​
  • NC State Datathon, 3rd place, 2021
  • Paige Plagge Graduate Award for Citizenship, Department of Statistics, NCSU​, 2020
    • Awarded for good citizenship to “a graduate student with an outstanding academic record, who in the judgment of the committee has especially enhanced the life of fellow students with encouragement, generosity and/or humor.” 
  • Provost Doctoral Fellow, Graduate School, NCSU, 2019-2020
  • University Graduate Fellowship, Graduate School, NCSU​, 2019-2020
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 2019

Reviewer Service
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Served as a peer-reviewer for the following journals:
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association - Theory & Methods
  • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
  • Journal of Statistical Software
  • ​Scientific Reports

Service 
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  • NC State-Duke Summer Institute in Biostatistics (SIBS) Graduate Student Mentor, 2022
  • GRAD-Future Workshop, Panelist, North Carolina State University, 2022
  • Climate Committee, Department of Statistics, NCSU, 2021
  • Started an English Conversation Club in NCSU Department of Statistics where four to six international students and two domestic students met weekly to encourage department camaraderie while also teaching idioms and other American-English speaking conventions to the international students, 2019-2022

Languages
  • English: Native
  • Japanese: JLPT N5

Hobbies

  • Tennis, Level 3.5
  • Crossword Puzzles
  • Cooking / Baking
  • Reading
  • Walks with my wife