Aidan Kerns

Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice

Aidan W. Kerns is a Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics and director of the ACMS Consulting Center. He joined Notre Dame from Kansas State University, where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in statistics and data science. While at Kansas State, he served as a consulting statistician in the Statistical Consulting Laboratory, collaborating with researchers in veterinary medicine, agricultural biosecurity, wildlife epidemiology, and public and military health. He also previously worked as a statistician at Corteva Agriscience. His research focuses on Bayesian hierarchical modeling, spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, and causal inference, with an emphasis on methods that translate directly into applied research.