Tommy Leininger is from Ogden, Utah. He is majored in Actuarial Science, with a minor in Economics. He is a lifelong BYU football fan and loves to ski, play tennis, and eat good food. In the spring of 2007 he began his involvement with research in the mind-boggling world of Bayesian statistics and MCMC estimation methods. He joined the IDeA Labs team during the fall of 2007.