
Michelle
NixonPhD
Assistant Research Professor
E386 Westgate Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-3960
Education
Penn State University, PhD in Statistics and Social Data Analytics, 2020
Penn State University, B.S. in Statistics and Economics, 2015
Research Interests
I am interested in all of applied statistics! I like to tackle meaningful problems in biomedical and social science data, and I also like to work in areas related to data sharing, including data privacy and other methods for reproducible research.
Statistical Data Privacy
- Synthetic data
- Developing privacy methods for complicated data (spatial, longitudinal, zero-inflated, etc.)
- Privacy-preserving statistical inference
- Deploying privacy methods and user education
- Ethics of privacy
Statistical methods
- Statistical methods for zero-inflated data
- Analysis of sequence count data (e.g. microbiome data)
- Distributed data techniques
- Data reduction
- Natural language processing
- Time series