Dr. Rachel Gidaro Assistant Professor rachel.gidaro@westpoint.edu Biography Dr. Rachel Gidaro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. She earned her Bachelors of Science in Mathematics in 2019 from Colorado Mesa University. Beginning in 2019, she attended Baylor University and earned a Master of Science in Statistics in 2020 before completing her Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics in 2024. Her research interests in statistics are focused on discrete variate time series analysis. In her free time, Rachel enjoys reading, exercising, and working with the cheer team, the Rabble Rousers, at USMA. Publications & Presentations Dillmann, Rachel A. and Harvill, Jane L. (2023) “Evaluating Approximations of Count Distributions with the Geometric Integer-Valued Autoregressive Process,” Poster presentation, Southern Regional Council on Statistics, 58th Summer Research Conference, Waco, Texas, June 11, 2023.