Experience
- Purdue University (2014 – present)
- Associate Professor of Practice (2026 – present) & Online Chair (2024 – present)
- Taught STAT 355: Statistics for Data Science (Fall 2026)
- Taught STAT 582: Statistical Consulting and Collaboration (Fall 2026)
- Assistant Professor of Practice (2021 – 2026)
- Taught STAT 355: Statistics for Data Science (Fall 2021, Spring & Fall 2022, Spring & Fall 2023, Spring & Fall 2024, Spring & Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
- Taught STAT 506: SAS Programming (Fall 2021, Spring & Fall 2022, Spring, Summer & Fall 2023, Spring & Summer 2024, Spring & Summer 2025, Summer 2026)
- Taught STAT 513: Statistical Process Control (Spring 2024, Summer 2025, Spring 2026)
- Taught STAT 582: Statistical Consulting and Collaboration (Spring 2026)
- Co-developed and taught GRAD 505: Foundations in Data Science (Spring & Summer 2025)
- Developed and ran Online MS in Applied Statistics program
- Visiting Assistant Professor (2019 – 2021)
- Taught STAT 355: Statistics for Data Science (Fall 2019, Spring & Fall 2020)
- Taught STAT 506: SAS Programming (Fall 2019, Spring & Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- Taught STAT 501: Experimental Statistics I (part of Spring 2020 for maternity leave -- not mine)
- Graduate Instructor & Research Assistant (2014 – 2019)
- Online Video Developer for STAT 225: Introduction to Probability (Summer 2018)
- Instructor for STAT 506: SAS Programming (Spring & Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
- Research Assistant (Summer & Fall 2016, Spring, Summer, & Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Summer 2019)
- Instructor for STAT 598: Qualifier Prep (Summer 2017)
- Private Tutor for STAT 225, STAT 416, MGMT 305, POL 501, & POL 605 (Fall 2016 – Spring 2019)
- Instructor for STAT 225 (Spring, Summer, & Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2018)
- Teacher's Assistant for STAT 113 & 301 (Fall 2014)
- 212 Media Studios (formerly PayProMedia) (2013 – 2014)
- Web (Back-End) Developer
- Miami University (2011 – 2014)
- Instructor for ISA 205: Business Statistics (17 classes over 6 semesters)
- Instructor for ISA 203: Supplementary Business Statistics (4 classes over 2 semesters)
- Creator and Instructor for ISA 480B: Business Statistics Using R
- Bowling Green State University (2009 – 2011)
- Graduate Assistant
- Niles Lankford Group, Inc. (2008 – 2009)
- Programmer
Education
- Purdue University (2014 – 2019)
- PhD, Statistics (2019)
- MS, Mathematical Statistics and Probability (2016)
- Bowling Green State University (2009 – 2011)
- MS, Applied Statistics (2011)
- Grace College (2005 – 2009)
- BS, Statistics (2009)
Publications
- Schul, M.W., Melin, M.M., & Keaton, T.J. (2023)
"Venous Leg Ulcers and Prevalence of Surgically Correctable Reflux Disease in a National Registry"
Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders 11 (3), 511-516 - Keaton, T.J., & Sabbaghi, A. (2022)
"Dismemberment and Design for Controlling the Replication Variance of Regret for the Multi-Armed Bandit"
Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice 10.1007/s42519-022-00280-w - Schul, M.W., Vayuvegula, S., & Keaton, T.J. (2020)
"The Clinical Relevance of Anterior Accessory Great Saphenous Vein Reflux"
Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders 8 (6), 1014-1020 - Keaton, T.J., & Sabbaghi, A. (2020)
"Visualizations for Interrogations of Multi-Armed Bandits"
Stat 8.1: e247
Presentations
- Invited Talk: "Innovating Online Education in Data Science and Statistics: Insights and Trend"
Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation (DSSV), July 2025 - Invited Talk: "Lessons from Online Statistics and Data Science Programs at Purdue"
North-West University / Purdue conference, July 2025 - Session Chair: "Advances in Learning Algorithms for Application"
INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2022 - Invited Talk: "Bandits with Priors"
INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2022 - Session Chair: "Advances in Active Learning"
International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC), October 2022 - Invited Talk: "Actively Learning About Active Learning"
International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC), October 2022 - Session Chair: "Advances in Causal Inference and Reinforcement Learning for the Online Service Industry"
INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2021 - Invited Talk: "Design and Dismemberment of the Multi-Armed Bandit"
International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC) 2021, October 2021 - Invited Talk: "Improving Multi-Armed Bandit Quality via Dismemberment"
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo 2021, May 2021 - Invited Talk: "Dismembering the Multi-Armed Bandit"
INFORMS Virtual Annual Meeting, November 2020 - Contributed Talk: "Design and Dismemberment for Controlling the Risk of Regret for the Multi-Armed Bandit"
International Conference on Design of Experiments (ICODOE), May 2019 - Invited Poster: "Dismembering the Multi-Armed Bandit"
Design & Analysis of Experiments (DAE) Conference, October 2019 - Poster: "Dismembering the Multi-Armed Bandit"
Purdue University Symposium on Statistics, June 2018
Awards
- Award for Excellence in Online Education, Purdue University Online, 2026
- Faculty/Staff Recognition Award for Program Creation, Purdue University Department of Statistics, 2024
- I.W. Burr Award, Purdue University Department of Statistics, 2019
- Outstanding Teaching by a Statistics Teaching Assistant Award, Purdue University Department of Statistics, 2019
- Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award, Purdue University Center for Instructional Excellence, 2018 & 2019
- James A. Sullivan Outstanding Graduate Student Award, BSGU Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research, 2011