Academics

I attended Kaiwaka Primary School, a small school of about one hundred students. Then I went on to Otamatea High School, a school taking students from approximately 4 primary schools (grade schools). At the end of high school, I sat two different sets of external examinations - the state run Bursary examinations and the privately run NZEST examinations. I achieved Scholarship grades in all 5 subjects in the Bursary examinations and a Scholarship in the NZEST examinations.

I went to the University of Auckland where I did a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours majoring in Statistics, having also studied Mathematics and Computer Science.

In the Statistics Department at the University of Auckland, the Honours Degree is awarded based on an extra year beyond a Bachelors degree, incorporating a significant research component. My supervisor for that project was Robert Gentleman. A copy of my honours project is here in compressed postscript form.

I am currently a graduate student at the University of Washington in the Department of Statistics. I have a masters and am currently a PhD Candidate. My advisors are Alejandro Murua and Werner Stuetzle, with whom I am investigating clustering of large data sets and in particular documents. For more information, see my research page.

I am the webmaster for the CSSS, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences an exciting new center set up to encourage researchers to cross the boundry between these areas.