Matthew Reimherr
Principal Research Scientist and Affiliate Professor
I am a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Statistics
at Penn State University. I obtained a PhD in Statistics from
the University of Chicago (2013, Advisor: Dan Nicolae), and an MS
in Statistics and a BS
in Mathematics from the University of Utah (2008, Advisor: Lajos Horváth).
Research Interests
- Functional Data Analysis
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Statistical Genetics
- High Dimensional Regression and Screening
- Data Privacy
- Shape Analysis
Honors and Awards
- Noether Young Scholar Award, 2019.
- Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow, 2019
- Harper Dissertation Fellowship, 2012
- Canadian Journal of Statistics Award, 2010
Odds and Ends
- Freiburg - Penn State Collaborative Workshop on Geometric Data.
- Press release
for our 2018 childhood obesity microbiome paper, also picked up by Newsweek
and discussed in Nature Reviews Endocrinology.
Here is a fun video about the - PSU Science article about high-performance computing, featuring Ben Shaby and myself.
- Talk on Functional Data Privacy at BIRS, 2018
- Talk on Manifold Data Analysis at Isaac Newton Institute, 2018
- Talk on Functional LASSO at BIRS, 2015
- Older PSU Stat Flyer from 2016
- How do you pronounce "Reimherr"? It sounds like "Rhyme-er".