Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Statistics

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James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Candace Berrett

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2175 WVB

Research Interests:
- Spatial statistics
- Spatiotemporal statistics
- Generalized linear models
- Bayesian statistics

Natalie Blades

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2190 WVB

Research Interests:
- Biostatistics
- Statistical Genetics

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

William Christensen

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2197 WVB

Research Interests:
- Pollution Source Apportionment
- Multivariate Analysis
- Spatial and Environmental Statistics
- Resampling Methods
- Climate and paleoclimate

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

David Dahl

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2152C WVB

Research Interests:
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- Model-based clustering
- Random partition models
- Protein structure prediction
- Bioinformatics
- Statistical Computing

Dennis Eggett

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2152F WVB

Research Interests:
- Statistics

Gilbert Fellingham

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2180 WVB

Research Interests:
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- Bayesian Hierarchical Model
- Prediction
- Sports and Human Performance

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Jared Fisher

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2189 WVB

Research Interests:
- Causal inference
- Dynamic linear models
- Nonlinear models
- Bayesian nonparametrics

Scott Grimshaw

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2182 WVB

Research Interests:
- Control charts
- Audience measurement and analytics
- Data Mining
- Statistical Computing

Brian Hartman

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2193 WVB

Research Interests:
- Bayesian methods; applications in actuarial science and risk

Matthew Heaton

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2196 WVB

Research Interests:
- Spatiotemporal statistics
- Environmental Impacts
- Bayesian Machine and Deep learning
- Statistics in Epidemiology
- Bayesian Modeling

Matthew Heiner

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2169 WVB

Research Interests:
- Hierarchical modeling
- Times-series analysis
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- Mixture models
- Applications in ecology and environmental sciences

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Lynne Nielsen

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2176 WVB

Research Interests:
- Statistics Education
- Flipped class instruction
- International relations
- State stability and security

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Garritt Page

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2184 WVB

Research Interests:
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- Hierarchical modeling
- Spatial statistics
- Mixtures
- Statistics in Sports
- Statistics in Education
- Functional Data

Alex Petersen

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2170 WVB

Research Interests:
- Functional Data analysis
- Object-oriented data analysis
- Functional and Structural Brain Connectivity
- Signal and Image Processing

Shane Reese

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
A-387 ASB

Research Interests:
- Bayesian Hierarchical Models
- Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design
- Sports Statistics

Robert Richardson

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2186 WVB

Research Interests:
- Spatiotemporal data analysis
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- Stochastic differential equations and processes
- Actuarial and financial models

Nathan Sandholtz

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2181 WVB

Research Interests:
- Sports Statistics
- Inverse Optimization
- Markov decision processes
- Operations Research Statistics

Del Scott

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2152B WVB

Research Interests:
- Categorical Data
- Graphical Analysis
- Linear Models
- Statistical Computing

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Shannon Tass

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2188 WVB

Research Interests:
- Computational health science
- Applications in Mental Health
- Data Science and Data Science teaching
- Text Analysis

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

H. Dennis Tolley

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2178 WVB

Research Interests:
- Statistical methods in analytic chemistry
- Actuarial methods for building life tables
- Use of statistical models in assessing entropy change

Richard Warr

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2185 WVB

Research Interests:
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- Reliability and survival analysis
- Stochastic processes
- Statistical and probabilistic computing

Philip White

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2177 WVB

Research Interests:
- Bayesian modeling
- Spatial and Spatiotemporal statistics
- Functional Data analysis
- Time-series
- Applications in Environmental, Ecological and climate series

Brinley Zabriskie

College: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department: Statistics
2171 WVB

Research Interests:
- Meta-analysis
- Biostatistics
- Categorical Data
- Nonparametric methods
- Applications in Public Health and Medicine