About me:

Welcome to my website. I'm Leland Russell, and I'm from New Hampshire. I'm a fourth year Mathematics and Statistics student at Reed College in Portland, OR. I'm expecting to graduate this coming year (2027). I hope to continue my education through a Ph.D in statistics. I identify myself as a Bayesian insofar as I am comfortable calling myself a statistician. Some of my interests include (only slightly ordered):

• Computational methods for Statistics, including
• MCMC samplers
• Nonparametric Bayesian methods
• EM algorithm and variants
• Stochastic Processes
• Implementing Bayesian alternatives to frequentist models
• (model-based) Clustering
• Baking, Cooking, and running a baking column in the student newspaper
• Algorithm Analysis
• Variably, different flavors of (estimator) asymptotic analysis
• Fabric dyeing and sewing
• Biking around Portland
• Hiking
• Random Variable convergence and analysis in function spaces
• Making Cheese
• Linux Package Management
• Porting C to R
• Programming language development
• Information Theory