DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE

Instruction & Teaching

My goal as an instructor is to provide an active learning environment where students feel engaged in their education. I strive to develop lesson plans and content that provides a clear understanding of introductory statistics and data science topics. I hope students leave my class with an appreciation for statistics and confidence in their ability to turn data into knowledge.

Recent Publications

Sass, D., Li, B., Clifton, M., Harbison, J., Xamplas, C., Smith, R. (2021) The impact of adulticide on Culex abundance and infection rate in the North Shore of Cook County, Illinois. Submitted to Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association.

Sass, D., Li, B., Reich, B.J. (2021) Flexible and fast spatial return level estimation via a spatially-fused penalty. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. To Appear. (https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2021.1938584)

Sass, D., Farkhad, B., Li, B., Chan, M., and Albarracín, D. (2021) Are spatial models advantageous for predicting county-level HIV epidemiology across the United States? Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 38. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2021.100436)

Cordell, L., Feldberg, G., Sass, D. (2019) The role of ABS CDOs in the financial crisis. The Journal of Structured Finance, 25(2), 10-27.