I am a third year PhD student in the department of Biostatistics. Generally, my research interests are statistical demography and epidemiology, and survival analysis.

My dissertation projects are related to the estimation of child mortality rates using available survey and vital registration data. This work is advised by Dr. Jon Wakefield. First, we are using Demographic and Health Survey data and simulated household survey data to compare temporal smoothing and forecasting models with an application to neonatal mortality rates. Second, we are exploring survival models which can both estimate mortality rates for all age groups simultaneously and also incorporate multiple data types. This project is in collaboration with partners in the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

I am also studying survival- and non-survival-based methods for recurrent events trials, in a project with Dr. Tom Fleming.