Associate Professor Undergraduate Coordinator Education Ph.D., Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993 M.S., Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1991 M.S., Mathematics, Auburn University, Alabama, 1987 B.S., Mathematics, Troy State University, Alabama, 1984 Research Research Interests: Properties and applications of seasonal time series Applying image models to social networks Properties of the maximum pseudo-likelihood estimate for Markov random fields