Bio/CV:
Tessa Childers-Day graduated with highest honors from UC Davis in June of 2008, earning her B.S. in Statistics with a minor in Political Science. She is a 5th year Ph.D.student in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley, and her main research interest is the application of Hidden Markov Models to Finance. Tessa enjoys helping undergraduates understand and appreciate the beauty of statistics and is an advocate for science education, through her involvement with the Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl.