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Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy, 1995, University of Chicago (Statistics).
  Thesis: Construction, implementation, and theory of algorithms based on data augmentation and model reduction, under the supervision of Professor Xiao-Li Meng.
• Bachelor of Science, 1991, Michigan State University (Statistics and Probability).
  Graduated from the Honors College with High Honors.

Professional Experience:

• Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, 7/05 - present.
• Acting Chair, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, 10/07 - 12/07.
• Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, 7/03 - 6/05.
• Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 7/00 - 6/03.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, 7/96 - 6/00.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Kalamazoo College, 9/95 - 6/96.

Editorial Service:

• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Editor, 1/07 - 12/09.
• Statistical Science, Guest Co-Editor for Special Issue Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the EM Algorithm, 1/07 - present.
• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Editor Elect, 5/06 - 12/06.
• Statistica Sinica, Associate Editor, 9/05 - 12/08.
• Journal of the American Statistical Association, Associate Editor, 2/04 - 6/06.
• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Associate Editor, 9/00 - 4/06.