University at Buffalo
Probability Playground, an interactive website for exploring probability distributions and their relationships. Over 150 proofs are also provided for distribution means, variances, and relationships.
Best Contributed Paper Award, given by the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and Data Science Education at the JSM 2023 conference in Toronto.
The ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education wrote a great summary of what the website does and how it was developed.
The Health Impact magazine of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions wrote a profile covering Probability Playground (pages 22-23).
Cunningham AP "Probability Playground: Exploring Probability Distributions Through Interaction" JSM Proceedings, 2023
Chizuk HM, Cunningham A, Horn EC,
Chizuk HM, Willer BS, Cunningham A,
Haider MN, Cunningham A, Darling S,
Cunningham A, and Smart R "Computer-Aided Parts Estimation" AI Magazine, 1993; 14(3);39-49
Scientific and Mathematical Computing Using Python, a free introduction to Python, NumPy, and Matplotlib. This book was developed to support the course "MTH 337: Introduction to Scientific and Mathematical Computing" taught at the University at Buffalo.
A visual representation of the integer solutions to the equation a2 + b2 = c2. Primitive Pythagorean triples are those solutions for which a, b, and c have no common divisor larger than 1.
A visual representation of the partitions of even numbers as the sum of two primes. This illustrates the famous "Goldbach conjecture", that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers.
Python code for a Mandelbrot set generator using Pygame, showing both the escape times and the internal structure.
Convergence | Sufficiency |
Point Estimation | Hypothesis Testing |
Interval Estimation | Asymptotic Evaluations |
Categorical Data |
I am currently the treasurer and a board member for the Alliance Française de Buffalo. We are a cultural and educational organization that encourages and furthers the knowledge of French speaking cultures and language in Western New York.
In April 2018 and 2019, my son Eli and I organized the first ever Rubik's speedcubing competitions in Western New York. The Batavia Daily News Online did a nice interview with Eli, and covered the event on the day. WGRZ in Buffalo had some great coverage of the 2018 event, and The Batavian of the competition in 2019.
During my term as co-president of the Corfu Free Library from 2007 to 2011, the library underwent a major expansion and renovation, added a new children's wing, and moved from a paper-based to an online reservation system.
I worked for six summers as a volunteer at the Hiscock site in Byron, New York, until it closed in 2011. This site dates back to the end of the last ice-age, and was the scene of many mastodon fossil discoveries.