About

I am a professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Sciences (SDS) at the University of Texas at Austin and serve as department chair.   I am also an Associate Director of the  Population Research Center (PRC) and a PRC faculty scholar.

Prior to joining the UT faculty in the fall of 2019, I spent 16 years at The Ohio State University in the Department of Statistics.  From 2018-2019, I also served as co-director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, one of eight NSF Mathematical Sciences research Institutes.

 I am an Area Editor for the Annals of Applied Statistics and serve as the Chair of the Analytics and Statistics for Population Research Panel B (ASPB) NIH Study Section.  I have served the profession through various elected roles in  American Statistical Association (ASA) and in the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA).   I am an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics.  

I am originally from Evanston, IL and received a BA in mathematics from Northwestern University in 1999.  I attended graduate school at Duke University, where I received a MS and PhD in Statistics in 2001 and 2003, respectively.  

Currently, I live in Austin, TX with my husband, Chris Holloman, and our son.