Academic career
His academic achievements include receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from BYU and a doctoral degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University in 1999. [4] [5] He has performed research in the fields of sports analytics,Bayesian hierarchical models and optimal experimental design. In 2013,he became a member of the American Statistical Association,in the section on Statistics in Defense and National Security. [6]
Reese has done studies using statistical models to predict behavior of aging nuclear weapons,as well as solar storm mapping,whale activity mapping and many studies applying statistics to sports. [7] [8] Before joining the BYU faculty,he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member. [9]
He received BYU's Young Scholar Award in 2004 and its Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010. [10]
From 2017 to 2019,he served as BYU's dean of the CPMS. [4]
On March 21,2023,Jeffrey R. Holland announced in a campus devotional that Reese would become BYU's 14th president,effective May 1. [1] At the time,Reese was serving as BYU's AVP. [10] On September 19,2023,Reese was inaugurated by D. Todd Christofferson and Dallin H. Oaks,both members of BYU's board of trustees and Latter-day Saint apostles. [11]
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