Matt Heiner
Assistant Professor
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
heiner@stat.byu.edu
Assistant Professor
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
heiner@stat.byu.edu
Dynamic and mixture modeling of complex, dependent data via Markov chain Monte Carlo.
Research interests:
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- time series analysis
- mixture models
- sparse signal recovery
- hierarchical modeling
- ecology,
- hydrology, and
- atmospheric biomonitoring.
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- Ph.D., Statistical Science, UC Santa Cruz, 2019.
- Dissertation: Bayesian Mixture Modeling and Order Selection for Markovian Time Series (link)
- Co-advisors: Athanasios Kottas and Stephan Munch.
- M.S., Statistics, Brigham Young University, 2014.
- Health and sports statistics
- Advisor: Gilbert Fellingham.
- B.S., Statistics: Actuarial Science Emphasis, Brigham Young University, 2014.
- Summer Graduate Pedagogy Mentor, UC, Santa Cruz, 2018.
- Online Course Developer, UC, Santa Cruz, 2016-2017.
- Summer Student Intern, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, 2015 and 2016.
- Statistician Intern, Savvysherpa Inc., 2014.
- Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, 2012-2014.
- R Programmer/Intern, Acxiom Corporation, 2013.
- Acturaial Intern, Aon Hewitt, 2011.