Profile

Education, experience, research, leadership, awards, and selected coursework.

Profile

Learn more about me.

Explore my educational background, research projects, and leadership activities.

Jett Palmer at a coffee shop

Education

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

M.S. in Statistics
2025 - 2026

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

B.S. in Statistics
2022 - 2025

Recent Experience

Research

Leadership

  • Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors from 2023-2026.
  • Chaired two strategic-initiative task forces, advising the board on policy and a $20 million nonprofit merger.
  • Inaugural winner of the Use Your Voice Scholarship (2023) and Champion Award (2026).

Community Engagement

  • Appointed to over fifteen committees and governing bodies at Cal Poly to advise executive administrators on institutional decisions.
  • Designed and hosted workshops for students and local nonprofits on data literacy and statistical tools.

Scholarship

Publications

  • Abrash, I., Canner, J., Geam, E., Kan, N., Kuebitz, C., Lopez, E., Palmer, J., Pfeiffer, I., Theobold, A., & Woodard, V. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 2026). Status, equity, and collaboration: A pilot study of Complex Instruction-informed pair programming.

  • Epstein, R., Newland, A., Palmer, J., Rajgarhia, A., & Wang, N. Testing a quantitative social pressure theory of sexual orientation with data obtained from 310,144 participants in 92 countries completing surveys in their native languages. Manuscript posted on SSRN, September 24, 2025. https://ssrn.com/abstract=5526418

  • Chance, B., Kerr, A., & Palmer, J. (2024). Taking the next step in exploring the Literary Digest 1936 poll. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 32(4), 405-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2024.2395505

In Progress

  • Palmer, J., Smith, H., & Vance, E. Design For Impact: The Statistical Collaborator’s Workflow. Learn more about the project here.

Conference Presentations

  • Joint Statistical Meetings | Contributed Paper Presentation (2026).
  • e-Conference on Teaching Statistics | Poster Presentation (2026).
  • Bailey College of Science & Mathematics Research Conference | Research Talk (2026).
  • Western Psychological Association | Paper Presentation (2025).
  • e-Conference on Teaching Statistics | Poster Presentation (2024).

Leadership

Governance Work

As an elected representative on the Board of Directors of a student association, I authored and passed legislation connected to institutional policy, shared governance, and student experience.

Selected Committees

  • ASI Cal Maritime Integration Ad Hoc Committee, Chair (2025-2026).
  • Artificial Intelligence Student Success Advisory Group (2025-2026).
  • Distinguished Teaching Award Committee (2024-2026).
  • Academic Senate: Student Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness Ad Hoc Committee (2025-2026).
  • Academic Senate and Academic Senate Executive Committee (2024-2025).
  • Internal Review Committee, Chair (2023-2025).
  • Campus Administrative Policy Committee (2023-2025).
  • Student Success Fee Allocation Committee (2023-2024).

Awards

  • Best Contributed Talk in Consulting, Joint Statistical Meetings (2026).
  • Champion Award, ASI Board of Directors (2026).
  • Michael Koehn Scholarship (Finalist), Cal Poly University Housing (2026).
  • Best Use of External Data, ASA DataFest at Cal Poly (2025).
  • Kathy Storelli “Use Your Voice” Scholarship, ASI Student Government (2024).
  • Best Visualization, ASA DataFest at Cal Poly (2024).
  • Joyce Curry-Daly and James Daly Scholarship, Cal Poly Statistics Department (2023).
  • Outstanding Character and Communication Scholarship, North County Education Fund (2022).

Selected Coursework

Statistics

Advanced Statistical Computing with R; Advanced Design and Analysis of Experiments; Graduate Consulting Practicum; Statistical Machine Learning with R; Generalized Linear Models; Multilevel and Mixed Modeling; Statistical Consulting; Generalized Linear Models; Applied Multivariate Statistics; Survival Analysis Methods; Survey Sampling & Methodology; Statistical Communication; Statistics Education.

Computing & Data Science

Introduction to Data Science with Python; Statistical Computing with R; Statistical Computing with SAS; Introduction to Python; Data Structures.

Mathematical Foundations

Probability Theory; Estimation and Sampling Theory; Mathematical Statistics; Calculus I-IV; Linear Algebra; Methods of Proof.

Ethics & Philosophy

Meta Ethics; Science, Ethics, and Technology; Philosophy of Science.

Resume

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