ASA program officer

  • ASA Advisory Committee Member on Climate Change Policy: Member (2023) Vice Chair (2024) Chair (2025)

  • ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR): Program Chair-Elect 2026

  • ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR): Publications Chair 2023-2024

Proposal Panel:

  • NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences, 2025

  • NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences, 2025

  • NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences, 2024

  • NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences, 2024

Proposal Referee:

  • NSF’s Climate and Large-scale Dynamics Program, 2024

  • NSF’s Hydrologic Sciences Program, 2024

  • NSF’s Climate and Large-scale Dynamics Program, 2023

  • NSF’s Climate and Large-scale Dynamics Program, 2021

  • NSF’s Climate and Large-scale Dynamics Program, 2019

Editorial Board:

Journal Referee:

  • Science

  • Nature

  • Journal of the American Statistical Association (3)

  • Annals of Applied Statistics (7)

  • Environmetrics (10)

  • Technometrics (7)

  • Environmental and Ecological Statistics (4)

  • Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (3)

  • Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (3)

  • Extremes (2)

  • Environmental Data Science

  • Remote Sensing

  • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (3)

  • Statistica Sinica

  • Biometrics

  • Statistics in Medicine

  • Computational Statistics

  • Stat

  • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society

  • Statistics and Computing

  • Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

  • Brazilian Journal of Probabilityand Statistics

  • Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications

  • Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (4)

  • Journal of Climate (6)

  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere

  • Monthly Weather Review

  • Weather and Climate Extremes (3)

  • Climatic Change

  • Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (3)

  • Atmosphere

  • Scientific Reports

  • Ocean Dynamics

  • Environmental Modelling and Software

  • Geoscientific Model Development

  • Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

  • Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science

Conference and Workshop Organizer:

  • IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference, Clemson, SC, May 2026

  • 2024 ENVR Workshop: Spatial Data Science for the Environment, Boulder, CO, October 2024

  • PIMS-BIRS-UBCO Summer School on Forecasting and Mathematical Modeling for Renewable Energy, Kelowna, BC, Canada, July 2024

  • 2024 Summer Research Conference, Southern Regional Council on Statistics, Clemson, SC, June 2024

  • NSF Interdisciplinary Workshop on Weather and Climate Extremes, Clemson, SC, May 2023

Program Committee:

  • IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference, Clemson, SC, May 2026

  • Workshop on Contemporary Advances in Statistics of Extremes, Columbia, MO, June 2025

  • 15th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Toulouse, France June 2024

  • 2024 Summer Research Conference, Southern Regional Council on Statistics, Clemson, SC, June 2024

  • NSF Interdisciplinary Workshop on Weather and Climate Extremes, Clemson, SC, May 2023

  • The 10th International Workshop on Climate Informatics

  • The 9th International Workshop on Climate Informatics

  • The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Information Analytics

Session Organizer:

  • Collaborative Strategies for Predicting and Measuring Uncertainty Associated with Weather and Climate Extremes, Joint Statistical Meetings, Nashville, TN, Aug. 2025

  • Panel on From Data to Climate Actions, Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, OR, Aug. 2024

  • Modern Developments in Space-Time Modeling, 7th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics, Beijing, China, July 2024

  • Statistical Deep Learning for Environmental Research, Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2023

  • The IMSI Confronting Global Climate Change Program, Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2023

  • Topic Contributed Panel on Future Directions of Climate Statistics, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Joint Statistical Meetings, DC, Aug. 2022

  • Modern statistical methods for environmental data analysis, The 5th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (virtual), June 2022

  • Minisymposium on The Science of Hazards - Part II of II, 2022 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2022

  • Minisymposium on The Science of Hazards - Part I of II, 2022 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2022

  • Modern Topics on Mining Massive Spatial-temporal Data, 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting (virtual), Oct. 2021

  • Advances in Statistical Climatology, Joint Statistical Meetings, Section on Statisticsand the Environment (virtual), Aug. 2021

  • Recent developments in climate/environmental statistics, The 4th InternationalConference on Econometrics and Statistics, (virtual), June 2021

  • Minisymposia on Advances and Challenges in Wind Modeling and its Applications, SIAM MPE20 (virtual), Aug. 2020

  • Uncertainty Quantification for Environmental Applications, Section on Statisticsand the Environment, Joint Statistical Meetings (virtual), Aug. 2020

  • The Climate Program at SAMSI, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO, July, 2019

  • Minisymposia on Statistics of Extreme Weather and Climate Events, SIAM Conferenceon Mathematics of Planet Earth, Philadelphia, PA, Sep. 2018

  • The Climate Extremes Program at SAMSI, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 2018

Session Chair:

  • Quantifying Risk of Cascading and Compound Extremes in Critical Systems, Workshop on Contemporary Advances in Statistics of Extremes, Columbia, MO, July 2025

  • Modern Methods for Multivariate Extreme Value Modeling (I), Workshop on Contemporary Advances in Statistics of Extremes, Columbia, MO June 2025

  • Day 3 and Day 4 Invited Talks, IMSI Workshop on UQ for Material Science and Engineering, Chicago, IL, Apr. 2025

  • Day 2 Invited Talk, IMSI Workshop on UQ and Trustworthy AI Algorithms for Complex Systems and Social Good, Chicago, IL, Mar 2025

  • Panel session on “UQ for a Sustainable Future,” IMSI Workshop on UQ and Trustworthy AI Algorithms for Complex Systems and Social Good, Chicago, IL, Mar. 2025

  • NSF workshop on Collaborative Strategies for Predicting and Measuring Uncertainty in Rare Occurrences in Civil and Environmental Systems, Golden, CO, Nov. 2024

  • 2024 ENVR Workshop: Spatial Data Science for the Environment, Boulder, CO, Oct. 2024

  • Statistical Innovations in Climate Research: Bridging Disciplines for Earth System Understanding, Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, OR, Aug. 2024

  • Extreme value analysis methods and theory for climate applications - Part II, 15th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Toulouse, France June 2024

  • Environmental and Climate Statistics, The Southern Regional Council on Statistics 59th Summer Research Conference, Clemson SC, June 2024

  • Georgia Statistics Day 2023, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2023

  • The IMSI Confronting Global Climate Change Program, Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 2023

  • Topic Contributed Panel on Future Directions of Climate Statistics, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Joint Statistical Meetings, DC, Aug. 2022

  • Spatial Statistics and UQ: Foundations for Innovation in Environmental Science, Invited Session, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Joint Statistical Meetings, DC, Aug. 2022

  • Modern statistical methods for environmental data analysis, The 5th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (virtual), June 2022

  • Minisymposium on The Science of Hazards - Part I of II, 2022 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Atlanta, GA, apr. 2022

  • Modern Topics on Mining Massive Spatial-temporal Data, 2021 INFORMS AnnualMeeting, Oct. 2021

  • Uncertainty Quantification Across the Boundaries, Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Systems Interest Group, Joint Statistical Meetings, Aug. 2021

  • Invited Session II, Georgia Statistics Day 2019, Atlanta, GA, OCT. 2019

  • Methods for High-Dimensional and Large Data I, 2019 Statistical Society of Canada(SSC) Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB, Canada, MaY 2019

  • Statistical Methods of Air Quality and Exposure, Section on Statistics and theEnvironment, Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 2018

  • Environmental Applications of Bayesian Methods, Section on Bayesian StatisticalScience, Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, July 2017

  • Environmental Extremes, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Joint StatisticalMeetings, Chicago, IL, Aug. 2016

University Service:

  • College of Science Global Engagement Committee, 2026 - 2027

  • Data Science and Analytic Online Program Curriculum Committee, 2025 - present

  • Statistics Tenure-Track Search Chair, Aug. 2024 - Oct. 2024

  • Statistics Tenure-Track Search Chair, Oct. 2023 - Mar. 2024

  • Data Science Lecturer Search Member, Oct. 2023 - Mar. 2024

  • Research Committee Member, Aug. 2023- present

  • Clemson University Graduate School Graduate Academic Program Self Review (GAPS) Member, June 2023 - Apr. 2024

  • School Teaching Award Member, 2023 - 2024

  • Interim School Director Search Member, 2023

  • School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Council Member, Aug. 2022 - May 2023

  • School Postdoc Search Member, 2022 - 2023

  • Data Science Undergraduate Curriculum Member, Spe. 2022 - present

  • School Director Two-Year Review Member, Dec. 2021

Seminar Organizer:

  • Statistics Seminar, School of Mathmatical and Statistical Sciences, Aug. 2020-present

  • Community Climate Science Seminars (CCSS), University of Victoria, Oct. 2018-Apr. 2019

  • Spatial statistics and Statistical Climatology Seminar: Department of Statistics, Purdue University, Aug. 2013-May 2017

  • Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Seminar: Department of Statistics, Purdue University, Jan. 2014-May 2015

SAMSI Administrative Service:

  • Storm Surge Risk Working Group, 2018-2019 MUMS program. Aug. 2018-May 2021

  • Extremes and Risk and Coastal Hazards Working Groups administrator, 2017-2018 CLIM program. Aug. 2017 - July 2018

Student presentation competition judger:

  • 2024 Georgia Statistics Day, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2024

  • 2023 Georgia Statistics Day, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2023

  • 35th New England Statistics Symposium, May 2022

  • 2021 SC-ASA Palmetto Symposium, Apr. 2022