michaelpearce (at) reed (dot) edu
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Reed College
Portland, Oregon
Welcome to my website! I'm an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Reed College in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. I completed my Ph.D. in statistics in 2023 at the University of Washington, advised by Professor Elena A. Erosheva. I earned a B.A. in mathematics with a concentration in statistics from St. Olaf College. Outside of academia, I have worked in statistical consulting for Deloitte and as a statistical research at Boeing.
I am a Bayesian statistician with work in ordinal data methods, model-based clustering, and statistical demography. Recently, I have focused on the statistical analysis of preference data, such as ratings and rankings. The goal of these methods is to infer a population's preferences, opinions, or attitudes, often with the goal of improving collective decision-making. This work has applications in voting theory, peer review, and survey data analysis.