My previous blog posts (such as my post on navigating the tenure-track job market) have reportedly helped many individuals. I do love helping people and sharing insights about what I have learned. So in this post, I figured that I would help another segment of people: aspiring PhD students in Statistics! This blog post attempts…
This post is a continuation of my previous post on the lessons that I have learned from being a tenure-track Assistant Professor for two years at an R1 research university. In this post, I discuss research, service, and external grant funding. My hope is that this post may be useful for new faculty who are…
Tomorrow will be my two-year work anniversary as an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of South Carolina. I decided to write a two-part series of posts about what I have learned over the past two years about teaching, supervising PhD students, research, grant writing, and service. In this first part, I will focus…
It has been about six months since I made the transition from postdoc to Assistant Professor (more on my experience on the academic job market here). I figured that it would be a good idea to write a timely blog post about this transition. I should note that I did make this move during a…
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…