Senior Lecturer on Statistics Department of Statistics Harvard University Senior Statistician Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research

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• I was interviewed on WCVB channel 5 about the odds of winning the Massachusetts VaxMillions Giveaway on June 30, 2021. An article in the Boston Globe on June 17, 2021 also quoted my views on the odds of winning.
  

• The ASA President’s Task Force Statement on Statistical Significance and Replicability, co-authored by me and 14 others, has been published online in the Annals of Applied Statistics.
  

• I have been appointed the Director of Masters Program in Statistics at Harvard University. The program is open only for undergraduates wishing to finish their studies with a concurrent masters degree, as well as existing PhD students at Harvard.
  

• Dick de Veaux and I recently recorded and produced a video song parody of "Yesterday" by the Beatles as a tribute (eulogy?) to the 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings taking place online due to the pandemic.
  

• The paper "Automated Harmonization of Bass Lines from Bach Chorales: A Hybrid Approach" by my former student Gil Wassermann and me has been published in the Computer Music Journal.
• "Measuring Effects of Medication Adherence on Time-Varying Health Outcomes using Bayesian Dynamic Linear Models" by Luis Campos, me, and Kristen Hunter has been accepted for publication in Biostatistics.
  

• The paper Bayesian analysis of longitudinal studies with treatment by indication by Reagan Mozer and me is now posted on arXiv.org.
• I co-organized the 2019 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, which took place on September 28, 2019. The conference received some early press.

• The manuscript (A) Data in the Life: Authorship Attribution of Lennon-McCartney Songs by Mark Glickman, Jason Brown, and Ryan Song has been published in the inaugural issue of the peer-reviewed journal, the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). The print version (which will be a bundling of the first two online HDSR issues) will be ready in October. The journal graciously funded the development of several interactive demos that will be embedded within the online version on the HDSR site. The online version contains sound samples to illustrate the relevant musical concepts on which our analyses rely. The published paper reflects an improved model over that which was reported earlier in the media, and all details are included in the article. Thank you for your patience in waiting to read our manuscript. We appreciate the early feedback on our manuscript, and thank many of you (especially David Hoaglin) for noticing several typos.
  
  Several outlets have written public-facing stories about our publication. Some notable examples are pieces in the Financial Times and the Daily Mail. Recent interviews about this work include one appearing on WDEL.com radio. More links to come soon, including to radio and podcast interviews.
  
  Last year, various articles appeared in the news media about our work. A 6-minute segment was recorded for the CBC show The Early Edition that appeared on August 1, 2018, and a 6.5-minute segment appeared on August 9, 2018, on WGBH radio in Boston. And if you are not sick of hearing my voice, there is also my interview on Science Friday on August 10, 2018, and the Stats+Stories podcast from October 18, 2018.

• I have been appointed a column editor (currently listed as Associate Editor) for the Harvard Data Science Review (click on "Associate Editors A-L").

• I have been elected to the American Statistical Association's Board of Directors for a 3-year term, starting 2019, as Council of Sections Governing Board representative.

• I am the founding head of our Sports Analytics Laboratory. The web site is now active.

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