Matthew Bhagat-conway
Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Bhagat-Conway is an Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill with 11 years of experience at the intersection of geography, urban transportation, and software development. He holds a PhD in Geography from Arizona State University and blends academic research—especially causal inference in urban systems—with practical software and project management skills honed at Conveyal and data-science fellowships. His work has applied machine learning and database engineering to real-world problems like distressed housing and transit planning, linking rigorous methods to policy-relevant outcomes. Matthew’s background ranges from web and mapping development to service planning internships, giving him a rare mix of technical fluency and domain expertise in urban data. He is based in Chapel Hill and known for translating complex spatial analyses into usable tools for planners and decision-makers.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at Arizona State UniversityN/A, Geography, N/A, Geography at Foothill CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography at UC Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (200)
traveling-salesman10
python10
transit10
gtfs10
prediction10
forecast10
cpp10
backend10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
qgis10
statistics10
multimodal10
econometrics10
data-tools10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mattwigway/osrm-backend
Aug 2021 - Jun 2024
Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 10 months
backendcppc-plus-plusrouting
mattwigway/eqsormo
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Equilibrium sorting models in Python
Contributions:18 releases, 26 PRs, 192 pushes in 1 year 1 month
python
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