Jacob B. Colvin jbcolvin at fastmail dot fm Resume

Papers, Presentations and Posters Boost Smoothing and SMRF Models MS report Effective R Programming, MCMC without loops and other amazing feats of daring. Sampling from a Gaussian Markov Random Field Modeling and Anomaly Detection for Event Occurrences Following an Inhomogeneous Spatio-Temporal Poisson Process a tech report I was involved with. Education M.S. Statistics & Applied Mathematics University of California, Santa Cruz Summer 2011 M.S. Statistics California State University, East Bay Spring 2007 B.S. Computer Science and Statistics, Minor Philosophy University of California, Davis Fall 2003 Teaching Assistant, University of Caifornia Santa Cruz AMS 5 Fall 2007 AMS 5 Winter 2008 AMS 5 Spring 2008 AMS 7 Fall 2008 AMS 11B Winter 2009 AMS 10 Spring 2009 AMS 7 Winter 2010 AMS 11B Spring 2010 AMS 2 Fall 2010 AMS 7 Winter 2011 AMS 7 Spring 2011 Data Analyst, Graphics Microsystems Inc Regular Employee: Fall 2004 - Summer 2005 Contractor: Summer 2007 Provided ad hoc analysis for executives, sales, and support personnel. Created an automated package for analyzing printing press performance. "Subjectivity is truth... Truth is subjectivity." --Soren Kierkegaard (Ergo SK would be a Bayesian!)