I am moving to Columbia, SC at the end of this week to begin my new career as an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. I have been doing academic research for four years now. I began doing research after passing my PhD qualifying exams in the summer of 2016. Following completion of…
Update on 2/29/20: I am excited to be joining the University of South Carolina Department of Statistics as an Assistant Professor in August! I figured it would be a good idea to write a post about what I learned from my experience on the tenure-track academic job market. This post pertains mainly to jobs at…
As displayed on my main homepage, I am on the tenure-track market for the 2019-2020 academic year. I began my postdoc in August 2018, which means that I have been at my current position for one year and three months. I have written several blog posts in the past about being a postdoc, if you…
Finally, after a few years of trying to get work published, I was recently able to get a paper that received the decision, “Acceptable after major revision” for one of the top journals in my field. This was a great relief, as it meant that I could go on the tenure-track job market sooner. However,…
I have now been at my postdoctoral appointment for about four months. The postdoc is a bit of a weird position: you’re not a graduate student anymore, but you’re not quite faculty yet. Here are some things I’ve learned in the past few months in how a postdoc differs from a PhD: 1. Your time…
Since I have a new personal webpage, I have decided to start occasionally blogging again. I had several blog entries that I had written on my old University of Florida personal website that I have also moved onto my new site (you may read them here). In a previous post, I discussed the process of…
I submitted the final draft of my PhD dissertation and had the oral defense for my PhD thesis on Thursday, May 3, 2018. In August of 2018, I joined the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral associate. In this blog post, I will discuss something that many senior PhD students must wrestle with: whether to…
I defended my PhD dissertation in May 2018. I am happy to report that my PhD experience was largely positive. Some of what I have written below can pertain to all disciplines, while some is specific to the discipline of Statistics. Regardless of background, I think that what follows may be of interest to many…
I began my PhD program in late August of 2014 and I submitted and defended my PhD dissertation in early May 2018, just shy of four years after I started grad school. Several people have asked me about “fast tracking” a PhD, I decided to write a blog post about it. First of all, I…