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Sam Baugh began his role as Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Penn State in Fall 2023. He completed an NSF postdoctoral research fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Mark Risser. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from UCLA in 2022, advised by Professor Karen McKinnon. Prior to this, he obtained an MS in Statistics and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, mentored by Professor Michael Stein. His research is driven by the goal of developing statistical methods to understand the impacts of climate change and long-term changes in ocean and atmospheric conditions on the probabilities of extreme events. His primary methodological interests include spatio-temporal statistics, Bayesian hierarchical models, and computational approximations. Additionally, Baugh works on Bayesian methods for psychometric modeling and collaborates with experts in medicine and public health.
Pennsylvania State University • University Park, PA
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of Statistics.
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