Daryl DeFord

Faculty: Data Analytics Assistant Professor
(WSU Pullman)

Teaches: DATA 115, STAT 419

Dr. DeFord earned his undergraduate degree from the math department here at WSU and got interested in research as a junior and senior working on projects supervised by faculty members in math and computer science.

During his Ph.D. work at Dartmouth and postdoc at MIT, he worked on mathematical models for analysis of social data.

Most recently, his work has focused on building tools for detecting and combating gerrymandering of political districts and teaching students about mathematical approaches to data analysis through the Voting Rights Data Institute.