I'm a statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on data science as applied to biological or biomedical areas such as genomics and infectious disease tracking. I love traveling and meeting people from other places and cultures. In my free time I mostly spend time with my wife and daughter. I enjoy hiking, bike riding, and other outdoor activities. I love scuba diving but I haven't had the chance to do it in several years. I enjoy sports like tennis, soccer, frisbee, and basketball but I'm not very good at any of them. I'm originally from a rural area in the southern USA, but have also lived in Boston, Washington DC, Costa Rica, and the Philippines.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

Sometimes I travel to other cities for work and it's nice to try to meet up with locals or other travelers for lunch or dinner or to just walk around. In 2007 I spent a year in the Philippines doing ecology research and met a lot of great friends through couchsurfing. I deleted my profile when CS started making us pay (maybe around 2019). But recently I haven't found any other sites that fill the niche CS does so I'm going to try it again.

兴趣

• hiking
• conversation

音乐、电影和书籍

Music: I like Brazilian music, older stuff like Rolling Stones, recently have been listening to George Harrison, the Band.

Movies: generally action, sci fi, mystery, spy stuff, or comedies. eg The Departed, the Prestige, Alien(s), Terminator 2, Heat (Michael Mann), A Mighty Wind, Idiocracy, Harlem Nights. Also silly kids movies like Muppett Treasure Island.

Books: my favorite fiction author is Neal Stephenson (eg Cryptonomicon), favorite nonfiction author is Charles C. Mann (eg 1493), I also like Jared Diamond.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

hitchiking across Sabah, Borneo.

我游览过的国家

Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey

我居住过的国家

Costa Rica, Philippines, United States