I completed my PhD in Statistics in 2001 under the supervision of Professor  Feridum Turkman (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Professor Clive W. Anderson (University of Sheffield, UK). My dissertation was on the extremes of certain transformations of time series. My research interests center in applied probability and sometimes cross the boundary into statistics.  Current topics of research gravitate towards problems in integer-valued time series analysis, forecasting, mathematical economics, classification, extreme value theory and in applied statistics.