Statistics Faculty
Chair
Professor
Email: kuipers@grinnell.edu
Professor Kuiper’s courses at Grinnell emphasize the application of statistics to multiple disciplines, a topic she also emphasizes in her research. Prior to teaching, she worked as a senior engineer and consulting statistician for Hallmark Greeting Cards. She also serves as a statistical consultant...
Associate Professor
Email: jonkmanj@grinnell.edu
Jeff came to Grinnell in 2009, and was previously a faculty member at Mississippi State University and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he taught a variety of statistics courses. Jeff's primary research is in the area of meta-analysis, which deals with appropriate statistical...
Assistant Professor
Email: millerry@grinnell.edu
Ryan's statistical research interests involve penalized regression modeling approaches, which include well-known methods like the LASSO and elastic net, non-convex penalties such as MCP and SCAD and their variants, as well as structured approaches like the group LASSO. These models are attractive in...
Assistant Professor
Email: noltecollin@grinnell.edu
Collin's PhD studies included both mathematics and biostatistics, and his research interests involve developing more robust methods for modeling repeated measures and time-series data, particularly as it relates to eye-tracking. His PhD work included development of the `bdots` software, or the...
Assistant Professor
Email: olsenanna@grinnell.edu
Anna joined Grinnell College after nearly a decade in industry, including positions at the United States Geological Survey and Risk Management Solutions, a global catastrophe modeling company. Anna’s doctoral and post-doctoral research and her work in industry focused on the mathematical modeling of...
Assistant Professor
Email: olsenc@grinnell.edu
Visiting Professor Chris taught statistics at Washington High School before moving into administrative work as an assessment specialist in the Cedar Rapids, IA, community schools. He comes to Grinnell after teaching at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. With undergraduate majors in mathematics and...
Professor
Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities
Email: simpsone@grinnell.edu
Erik Simpson's literature courses focus on British writing from Shakespeare to the present, especially the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His primary research field is British and transatlantic literature of the Romantic period. He was the Principal Investigator for Grinnell...
Assistant Professor
Email: wellsjon@grinnell.edu
Jonathan is a probabilist and mathematical statistician whose research interests lie in random matrix theory, a discipline that originally arose from an interest in estimating the covariance matrix of a random sample obtained from a multivariate population, and which now finds use across several...