The Department of Statistics would like to welcome Dr. James Xenakis, Lecturer in Statistics, to our teaching faculty!  Dr. Xenakis joined the department in August 2023 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, where he had previously completed a PhD in Biostatistics.  In the edited and excerpted interview below, Dr. Xenakis spoke with us about his statistics projects in a mouse lab, reasons for joining the department, and favorite hobby (reading American fiction...