Jared Deighton
Assistant Professor

Education

  • Ph.D., Mathematics (Mathematical Biology concentration), The University of Tennessee

  • M.S., Mathematics, The University of Tennessee

  • B.S., Mathematics, Calvin University

Courses Taught

  • CAIS-0105/MATH-0113: Introduction to Data Science

  • MATH-0108: Elementary Statistics

  • MATH-0340: Mathematical Statistics I

Areas of Research

Applied Mathematics

Artificial Intelligence

Computational Neuroscience

Data Science

Mathematics Education

Publications

Jared Deighton, Wyatt Mackey, Ioannis Schizas, David L. Boothe, and Vasileios Maroulas. “Spectral-stimulus information for self-supervised stimulus encoding”. In: The Annals of Applied Statistics 20.2 (2026), pp. 1247–1266. doi: 10.1214/26-AOAS2167. url: https://doi.org/10.1214/26-AOAS2167.

Jared Deighton, Shan Zhong, Kofi Agyeman, Wooseong Choi, Charles Liu, Darrin Lee, Vasileios Maroulas, and Vassilios Christopoulos. “Functional Ultrasound Imaging Combined with Machine Learning for Whole-Brain Analysis of Drug-Induced Hemodynamic Changes”. In: Imaging Neuroscience (2025).

Wyatt Mackey, Ioannis Schizas, Jared Deighton, David L Boothe Jr, and Vasileios Maroulas. “Geometric sparsification in recurrent neural networks”. In: npj Artificial Intelligence 1.1 (2025), p. 15.

Kristen R Alford, Lydia K Walls, Stacy L DeRuiter, Randall Pruim, Jason E VanHorn, Matthew Bone, Jared Deighton, Jamison Koeman, Sadie Kornoelje, Abdul Koroma, et al. “Reduction in diarrhoea rates after household water filter distribution in small and remote communities in Liberia”. In: Cogent Public Health 10.1 (2023), p. 2205716.

Kristen R Alford, Katherine D Rosendale, Abdul Hafiz Koroma, Stacy L DeRuiter, Randall Pruim, Jason E VanHorn, Matthew Bone, Jared Deighton, Adam DenHaan, Jamison Koeman, et al. “Evaluating filter functionality and user competence after a hollow fiber membrane filter intervention in Liberia”. In: Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 12.12 (2022), pp. 851–861.