About Dr. Kim Roth
Welcome! I am Kim, a statistician at
I have training in both statistics and mathematics. Currently my research is in statistical techniques for microbial genomics, but my original field is complex dynamics. My interests also include the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in statistics, data science, and mathematics and recreational mathematics. I joined the statistics department at Penn State in Fall 2025 as a Teaching Professor after many years at Juniata College.
My Ph.D is in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University and my Masters in Applied Statistics is from the Pennsylvania State University’s World Campus. My bachelor’s degree is in mathematics with a minor in computer science from Oberlin College.
Data Art
I gave a 25 minute invited talk, "Data Driven Art: Local Historical Weather Patterns" at Illustrating Mathematics Reunion/Expansion at ICERM. Here are the slides.
. The recording will appear here when available.For the talk I made a miniblanket based on average temperature by month in Huntingdon. More details can be found on my ravelry page for the project.
I gave a 5 minute talk, "Make Data Art", as part of the opening sesion at the US Conference on Teaching Statistics in July 2025. Here are the slides.
. The recording of the presentation is here, I am the third five minute talk at about 32:18.Mathemalchemy
The Mathemalchemy project is a large multimedia art installation that celebrates the creativity and beauty of mathematics, driven by the collaborative energy and enthusiasm of twenty-four mathematical artists and artistic mathematicians. I was one of those mathematical artists!
Learn more about the Mathemalchemy project from its website (https://mathemalchemy.org/), which includes related stories, press, and even a comic book adventure in math and art. The comic is by Jay Hosler and Max Hosler and contains the picture of me above that they kindly allow me to use.
