Matt Beckman
Director at Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE)
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Beckman is an Associate Research Professor of Statistics and Director of Undergraduate Programs at Penn State University with 11 years of experience bridging teaching, research, and program leadership for statistics and data science majors. He combines industry-hardened biostatistics and regulatory experience from roles at Medtronic and Nonin Medical with a strong academic foundation (PhD in Educational Psychology, MS in Statistics) to design curricula that emphasize practical, data-driven decision making. His background includes developing training materials and workshops—from advanced design of experiments to introductory applied statistics—reflecting a talent for translating complex methods into usable skills. Based in State College, PA, he also brings hands-on consulting experience across product development and quality systems, making him adept at aligning academic programs with real-world statistical practice.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Educational Psychology (Quantitative Methods in Education - Statistics Education), PhD, Educational Psychology (Quantitative Methods in Education - Statistics Education) at University of MinnesotaBS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Penn State University
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Github Skills (11)
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Github contributions (5)
mdbeckman/dcData
Jan 2021 - Feb 2026
Data Sets Accompanying DataComputing eBook
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
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mdbeckman/GitHub-Practice-184
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
GitHub Practice for STAT 184
Contributions:550 commits, 276 PRs, 308 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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