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C. Shane Reese
Christopher Shane Reese is an American statistician, academic administrator, and 14th president of Brigham Young University (BYU).[2] At BYU, he previously served as Academic Vice President (AVP), dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (CPMS), and as the Melvin W. Carter professor of statistics.[3] Academic careerHis 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] Personal lifeReese grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was raised by a single mother.[4] From 1990 to 1992, he served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Taiwan. He is married to Wendy Wood. They have three children, all of whom attended BYU.[1] References
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