his research focuses on the development of statistical methods for addressing environmental health problems

Honors and Awards
APHA Mortimer Spiegelman Award, 2016
NIH R21: Extreme heat and health: Characterizing vulnerability in a changing climate (2011–2013)
NIH R01: Statistical methods for complex environmental health data (2011–2015)
Lead author of NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month, July 2008
Second author of NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month, December 2007
Lead author of #1 most cited paper in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A for 2006–2007
Faculty Innovation Fund Award, JHSPH, 2006
UCLA Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award, 2003
UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2002
Winner, ASA Student Paper Competition in Statistical Computing and Graphics, 2002
Teaching Assistant of the Year, UCLA Department of Statistics, 2000