I am a Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair, Undergraduate in the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto. From 2020 to July 2026 I served as Special Advisor to the Dean of Arts and Science on Computational and Data Science Education, where I co-developed several data science initiatives across the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Before joining U of T in 2013 I held positions at the Harvard School of Public Health, private consulting, and the pharmaceutical industry where I worked mainly on clinical research. I am one of the founding members of Insecurity Insight, an international NGO that uses data to document and analyze violence against aid workers and refugees, and a past-president of the Data Science and Analytics Section of the Statistical Society of Canada. My research interests include data science and statistics education, effective statistical communication and collaboration, experiential learning in data science, and the role of generative AI in teaching and learning.
I am interested in legal matters involving statistical evidence; my expert reports have been admitted as evidence in several court cases, and I have testified as a qualified expert in statistics before a professional regulatory tribunal.
In 2025–26 I was part of the team that received the Northrop Frye Award for developing interdisciplinary data science courses. I founded ASA DataFest@UofT, and I was the lead faculty member for datatools.utoronto.ca, U of T's JupyterHub.