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Dr. Rayens is a Full Professor in the Department of Statistics where he serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Director of Educational Initiatives. He has just returned from a two-year assignment in central administration where he served as Assistant Provost for General Education in the Division of Undergraduate Education. While there he was tasked with guiding the implementation of the University's new general education program, the UKCore.. Dr. Rayens has an extensive research record in the area of exploratory structure-seeking methodologies (e.g. compositional data analysis, partial least squares, discriminant analysis, PARAFAC models). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemometrics. During the last couple of years his research has been refocused on pedagogy and the construction of material for the inverted classroom. He has just fiinished the first major revision of his activities workbook Making Sense of Uncertainty. Dr. Rayens teaches a variety of courses, including graduate service courses in regression, sampling, and applied multivariate analysis, as well as core graduate courses in multivariate analysis and theoretical linear models. He developed and is teaching the Department's new General Education Course on Statistical Inferential Reasoning. Professor Rayens is a proponent of the "inverted classroom" and "blended learning" wherein significant amounts of routine content are off-loaded as custom videos and taken out of the classroom, leaving time in the classroom for case studies and student-led activities and demonstrations.
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