Matthew Reimherr - Associate Professor

Note: I am on leave 2022-2023 working at Amazon as a Principal Research Scientist. During this time I will be working at a reduced capacity in academic roles.

I am an Associate 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 Center for Medical Genomics at PSU (with a cameo from yours truly)
• 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".