Professor of Mathematics

Brigham Young University – Idaho

Rexburg, ID

2005 - Current

• Teach undergraduate mathematics, data science, and statistics courses such as multivariate calculus, data wrangling and visualization, abstract algebra, introduction to analysis, linear algebra (intro and senior level), differential equations (ordinary and partial), engineering statistics, etc.
• (2024 ) Co-managed (with Dr. Michael Dorff and Dr. Jen Brooks) a 7 week REU at BYU in Provo for 4 students from BYU-Idaho, focusing on extending research related to complex harmonic polynomials.
• (2021+) Collaborated to create an R (tidyverse) data wrangling and visualization text, serving 200+ students a year and growing.
• (2019+) Collaborated to create Applied Calculus for Data Analysis, a calculus course focusing on data science applications, wrote over 1/3 of the course text, and wrote and maintain all course related R Shiny apps.
• (2013+) Department webmaster, serving a variety of courses impacting over 30 instructors and 5000 students every semester, including setup and maintenance for open source PHP wikis and SQL databases.
• (2014+) Created and maintain a JavaScript normal probability applet used by statistics courses at BYU-I and BYU Pathway World wide, serving 2500+ students a year around the globe.
• (2015-18) Used R to automate course package creation for all on campus statistics courses, saving faculty 1000+ hours.
• (2009+) Created and maintain PmWiki’s open source jsMath and SageCell cookbooks.
• (2005 - current) Create open source textbooks, problem sets, and more. See byuimath.com/bmw/all/pw.
• (2012+) Department internship coordinator: mentor 10-30 majors/year.
• (2021+) Mastery Learning Practitioner Coordinator and Thinkshop Lead

Mathematical Association of America Service

Intermountain Section of the MAA

maa.org

2002 - current

• Intermountain Section Teaching Award (2016)
• Contributed talks organizer (2012-14) - coordinate 50+ conference talks
• Elected First Vice Chair (2015-16) - section leadership
• Webmaster and technical support (2016-22) - section leadership
• Conference organizer for yearly meeting (2021) with 150+ participants

Tech Lead for Generative AI NumPy Project

POSSEE via OpenTeams

possee.org

2024

• Led a team of student interns to create an automated system capable of adding thousands of AI generated examples into NumPy’s documentation (see https://github.com/possee-org/genai-numpy).

Brigham Young University

Ph.D. in Mathematics (summa cum laude)

Provo, Utah

2005

Dissertation: Statistical Properties of Thompson’s Group and Random Pseudo Manifolds

Utah State University

B.S. in Mathematics (summa cum laude)

Logan, Utah

2001