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Areas of Research

• Big Data
• Dimension Reduction and Variable Selection
• Functional Data Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Multivariate Statistics
• Spatial and Spatiotemporal Statistics
• Environmental Data
• Electrical Data
• Public Health
• Brain Imaging

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Early-Carer Researcher Award. Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering. South Dakota State University. 2024.
• Editor’s Pick Award: Article “Application of Pyraclostrobin Fungicide at Miniature Floral Head Development Growth Stage Is Efficacious Against Phomopsis Stem Canker Fungi in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)â€� as an Editor’s Pick from Vol. 24, No. 1 of Plant Health Progress. 2023.
• Mike Kutner Best Faculty Poster Presentation Award. SRCOS Summer Conference. (2019, 2022, 2023).
• Kutner/ASA Junior Faculty Travel Award, SRCOS Summer Conference. (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023).
• Travel Award funded by STATMOS for visiting NCAR. (2017).
• Best Oral Presentation Award. Virginia Academy of Science. (2015, 2016).
• Best Poster Award, Psychiatric Society of Virginia Fall Conference. (2015).
• Graduate Student Harshbarger Travel Award, SRCOS Summer Conference. (2014, 2015).
• Travel Award, SAMSI.  (2014, 2015, 2017).

Grants

• Assessment of vaccine Decision-Making Factors. South Dakota Department of Health Immunization Program. January 2024 - December 2024, $87,861.
• Developing explainable machine learning and computational methods for identifying geographic and racial disparities in end stage renal disease. NIH, September 2023 - August 2024, $1,091,316.
• Collaborative Research: RII Track-2 FEC: STORM: Data-Driven Approaches for Secure Electric Grids in Communities Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change. NSF, July 2023 - June 2027, $750,000.
• DOE (Renewal-Phase III): Development and Validation of Models to Assess Dynamic Response of Converterâ€�Dominated Power Systems across Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales. (Lead Institution: University of Alaska Fairbanks), August 2023 - August 2025, $291,211.
• Administration and Reporting for the 2023 SD Youth Tobacco Survey. South Dakota Department of Health, partial flow-through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023-2024, $128,020.
• Palliative Care Use Among American Indians and Alaska Native with End-Stage Renal Disease Caused by Diabetes. NIH, January 2023 - May 2024, $55,688.
• Climate-Smart Commodities GEVO Conservation Practice Adoption. USDA, July 2023 - December 2027, $2,282,548.
• DSFAS-AI: Leveraging data science, remote sensing, and open source tools to inform grassland management decisions for livestock producers. USDA, June 2022 - June 2026, $649,948.
• Pre-pubertal replacement gilt selection through biological indicators. USDA-NIFA-AFRI, 2021-2026, $607,830.
• DE-SC00020281 (Renewal): Development and Validation of Models to Assess Dynamic Response of Converterâ€�Dominated Power Systems across Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales. (Lead Institution: University of Alaska Fairbanks), August 2021-August 2023, $331,413.
• Comparing Prediction Capability of Different Neural Network Structures and Machine Learning Models for Precision Agriculture Data. º£½ÇÖ±²¥app's Future Innovators of America Undergraduate Research Fellowship, January 2023 - May 2023, $5,000.
• Design of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Increasing Electricity Grid Resilience. South Dakota State University Innovation and Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA), June 2022 - May 2022, $12,468.
• Investigating the burden of breast cancer and assessing the impact of breast cancer screening program among women in South Dakota. South Dakota Department of Health Cancer, 2021-2022.  
• Development and Validation of Models to Assess Dynamic Response of Converter-Dominated Power Systems across Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales. Department of Energy. (Lead Institution the University of Alaska Fairbanks). (2.25 months summer salary for summer 2021). DOE EPSCoR, 2019-2021, $630,897.
• Analyzing Large Clinic Data Using Bayesian Mixed Effect Model. Sanford Data Collaborative. Sanford, 2020-2021, $1,000.
• South Dakota State University, Department of Agronomy, Horticulture, and Plant Science. Full support for Two Graduate Research Assistants: 1 MSc. and 1 Ph.D.; January 2019 - July 2022.
• Scholarly Excellence Funds. South Dakota State University. $500 each year for 2019 and 2020.