Dr. Stephen C. Loftus is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Sweet Briar College. Prior to this, he received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech where his dissertation discussed Bayesian model selection techniques in high-dimensional omics datasets. Additionally, he worked as an Analyst in Baseball Research and Development for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball club, where his work focused on player evaluation. His research has been presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings and Society of American Baseball Research's Analytics Conference, and he has served as a Judge for the American Statistical Association's Statsketball contest since its inception in 2017. Dr. Loftus' research interests include Bayesian modeling techniques, focusing on applications in text mining, clustering techniques, and sabermetrics
