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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Geospatial Sciences at the United States Air Force Academy.

Specialty Areas:

Mathematical Econometrics: especially Quantile and Expectile Regression theory,
Empirical Macroeconomics/Finance/Risk, including Bayesian methods and time series forecasting.
I have a passion for Interdisciplinary Research, especially topics relating to energy and the environment.

Education:

Illinois State University (MS, Applied Economics 2014; MS, Mathematics, 2015), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D., 2021), Reading Books and Talking To People (circa 1992-present). 

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:

I am the recipient of many academic awards, including multiple division-wide Civilian of the Quarter awards at USAFA, CITL's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent or Outstanding (for the top 10% of instructors universitywide) some dozen or more times, the Scott M. Elliot Graduate Scholarship, and the Actuarial Science Committee's Best Statistical Project award. I have received the CITL's Outstanding award for in-person teaching as well as online teaching.

I am proud to have taught ten different courses (and counting) over the years and served as a teaching assistant for several others while in graduate school.  I enjoy consulting on course design and curriculum review in my own department and elsewhere. 

At USAFA, I teach Econometrics I, Econometrics II, and Advanced Econometrics. My past teaching portfolio includes Economics of Energy and Public Policy, Comparative Economic Systems, Individual and Social Choice, Using Regression and Econometric Methods, Principles of Economics, and the Economic Forecasting course that I taught for several years at UIUC.

From 2017-2019 I served as chair of the UIUC Macroeconometrics brown bag seminar (the department's only seminar series with a catering budget).

I am closely engaged with the undergraduate community and serve as an active mentor. Currently, I am an undergraduate advisor at USAFA. At Illinois State, I served as the Faculty Advisor to the Virtual Reality Club from 2014-2016. I have also been an invited speaker at the UIUC Economics Club and the UIUC Consumer Economics and Finance club.