Dr. Parker is an associate research professor in MSU's Department of Mathematical Sciences and CBE's bio-statistician working primarily with CBE's Standardized Biofilm Methods team. Current projects include methods development work for the Environmental Protection Agency and inter-laboratory study design and analysis for ASTM International. His research interests include modeling of complex biological systems (biofilms in the environment and in the lab, neural coding, vision systems), Bayesian inverse problems, iterative sampling from high dimensional densities, bifurcations with symmetries, and annealing/clustering schemes.