I am a second year PhD student working with Athanasios Kottas on inference for population dynamics models and development of Bayesian nonparametric regression models for categorical data. I received my bachelors and masters degrees from Brigham Young University, where my masters research included the investigation of Bayesian approaches for the analysis of microarray data under the supervision of Dr. Natalie Blades.



Contact Information:

email: kassief at ams dot ucsc dot edu
office: BE 146



Research Interests: Bayesian nonparametrics, multivariate ordinal regression, analysis of dose-response studies and toxicology data, population dynamics

Technical Reports and Works in Progress:

                  • Fronczyk K, Kottas A, and Munch S. "Flexible modeling for stock-recruitment relationships             using Bayesian nonparametric mixtures." UCSC-SOE Tech Report 2009-17.
                              • Fronczyk K and Kottas A. "A Bayesian nonparametric approach to risk assessment from                   developmental toxicity studies."
                  • Fronczyk K and Kottas A. "Dependent Dirichlet process dose-response modeling with                       polychotomous responses."