College of Arts and Sciences — Analytics

Matthew Dixon, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor, Graduate Program in Analytics

Matthew teaches computational analytics I and is also a senior
quantitative analyst at Thomson Reuters in San Francisco. Matthew's
research interests are in the areas of predictive analytics and
statistical computing and has consulted for a number of clients in
the finance industry. He was a Krener Assistant Professor in the
Department of Mathematics at UC Davis and has held postdoctoral
research appointments with the Department of Computer Science at UC
Davis and with the Institute for Computational and Mathematical
Engineering at Stanford University. Matthew holds a Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics from Imperial College, London.

Education

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Imperial College, London, 2007

Research Areas

Predictive Analytics and Statistical Computing