Mathematics & Computing Building
Room MC 5244
519-885-4567, ext. 37747
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The Women in Mathematics committee stands in solidarity with those experiencing racism and joins the call for actions to end systemic racism worldwide and in our own community. We are committed to support the University of Waterloo's immediate actions to create positive changes. You can find more information about the immediate and developing actions in this regard on the Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion (HREI) website.
My job as a professor has two main parts: teaching and research. I teach statistics classes to undergraduate and graduate students. In my classes we learn how to calculate and model the association between a risk factor and a disease. We all know that smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer but how do you prove it? Or suppose there is a new treatment for a disease, how would you design a study to test the new treatment? We also learn how to design a survey and analyze the resulting data.
I also do research in the field of biostatistics. One of the projects I am working on is comparing different dosing strategies for patients on dialysis. We want to determine which rule for when to increase/decrease the drug dose is associated with patients surviving for the longest time.
Hard skills: Mathematical ability, computer programming, report writing.
Soft skills: Public speaking, time management, ability to teach.
Age pyramid of Ontario population in 2001 and 2006.
Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 2001 and 2006.
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Indigenous Initiatives Office.