Alumni

Kiki Rizki Amalia is originally from Indonesia and has been working as a statistician at BPS Statistics Indonesia. She received a Fulbright Study Grant to pursue her master's degree. She was inspired to take Statistics because she intended to dedicate herself to be a statistics lecturer in her country. Her hope is that she can create great statisticians who have a deep understanding of the processes of statistics. Besides working as a statistician, she is enjoying her time as a life coach, where she likes to listen to people and provide feedback and coaching to a number of individuals.

Frances received his Master's degree from UNL, as well as a Master's degree in Mathematics from Youngstown State University.

Salfo's research interests are in application and development of text analytics methods studying political leaders' role for economic development. He received his PHD from UNL in 2018. He also has a BA in Business Administration and an MS in Economics from the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. His ideal job would be to do research at a private, public, or non-governmental organization.

Dr. William Bridges received his MS and PhD from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in the early 80's and has received several awards throughout his career including being elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018. In 2023 he was awarded the Class of '39 Award for Excellence, presented annually to one distinguished faculty member whose outstanding contributions for a five-year period have been judged by peers to represent the highest achievement of service to the student body, Clemson University, and the larger community.

Windsor Westbrook Sherrill, who nominated Bridges, wrote that he is renowned throughout the campus for his extraordinary dedication to research, teaching and mentorship, serving both faculty and students. Bridges has served on more than 400 graduate student advisory committees, resulting in approximately 400 co-authored publications with approximately 8,500 citations. 

His research focus is the application of generalized mixed models in Agriculture, Biology, Education, and Engineering studies.

Ella received her PhD from the University of Nebraska in 2021 and earned her BS from St. Catherine University in St. Paul Minnesota. Ella's doctoral research was in statistics education and she developed an online version of a non-calculus based undergraduate level introductory statistics course with her advisor, Dr. Erin Blankenship.

Ella is now an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota where she teaches introductory courses on statistics, applied regression analysis, statistical computing, and applied statistics. Her areas of expertise are statistics education, online education, and simulation-based inference.

After receiving his PhD, Pavel was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Cancer Institute – Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in Rockville, MD, until he was appointed Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wyoming.

Dr. Pavel Chernyavskiy joined the University of Virginia as an Assistant Professor in January 2021. His methodological work is motivated by the analysis of correlated data, broadly construed. Correlated data arise from taking multiple observations on the same subject or cluster of subjects, taking observations near one another in space, in time, or jointly in space and time. His research interests consist of the subject of health disparities, population health, non-stationary spatial correlation, intervention efficacy. His areas of collaborative research have spanned public health, education, psychology, and ecology, to name a few.

Originally from the Phillipines, he earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Physics from the University of the Phillipines-Diliman in 2017 before receiving his PhD in Statistics from UNL. His research interests include epidemic modeling, minority health, health disparities research, experimental design, statistical methodology, and statistical consulting.

Miguel is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics where he collaborates with other researchers from the UNLV School of Public Health.

Julie is currently a Data Scientist at Loop. She earned her PhD in Statistics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Spanish from Doane College. Dr Garai actively collaborates with statisticians, psychologists, ecologists, forest scientists, software engineers, and business leaders in academia and industry.

She recently co-authored a book with Statistics Emeritus Professor, Walt Stroup: Generalized Linear Mixed Models Modern Concepts, Methods and Applications, published in May 2024.

After receiving her PhD in 2010, Jennifer Green was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in the Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education. In 2013 she became an Assistant Professor - later Associate Professor - in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montana State University. She is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Probability; Program in Mathematics Education at Michigan State University.

Her research focuses on the development of teachers in grades K-16, as well as the development of statistical methodology to characterize the impacts of educational programs for teachers. Her research aims to improve STEM education with an emphasis on statistics, informing and enhancing the processes of teaching, learning, and assessment across all levels of education. She investigates the teaching and learning of statistics through the development and refinement of programs for K-16 practitioners. Her current interests include K-12 teachers' uses of data and statistics in classroom inquiry, innovations to modernize and transform postsecondary statistics coursework, and graduate student development in teaching and scientific oral communication. She teaches several statistics and statistics education courses, including Theory of Probability and Statistics and Teaching College Mathematics.