Application Umstaetter

Richard Umstaetter, PhD

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Pasadena, CA 91106




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Personal details:

Nationality: German, Green Card holder

Languages: English (fluent), German (native language), French (basics)

Education:

2007 Ph.D. in Statistics (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

2003-2006 Graduate student in Statistics at the University of Auckland (New Zealand)

working on Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo and global optimization algorithms.

Ph.D. thesis title: Bayesian Strategies for Gravitational Radiation Data Analysis

2001 German Diplom (Master equivalent) in Statistics with master’s project title
”Zur Optimierung des Variationsverfahrens bei der Multiband Gutzwiller Methode” 
(For the optimization of the variational procedure in the multiband Gutzwiller method)

1993-2001 Transition to Statistics with minor in Physics at the University of Dortmund, Germany
(Specialization: time series analysis, reliability theory).

1990 Internship at the Research Centre Jülich, Germany

1989-1993 Study of Electrical Engineering, Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule, Wuppertal, Germany

1989 Abitur (university-entrance diploma)

Employment and work experience:

2007-2009 NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
working on Bayesian strategies for astrophysical time series analysis.

2002/2003 Research assistant at the Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

2001/2002 Student assistant at the Department of Physics, University of Dortmund, Germany

1998-2001 System evaluation with SAS at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany

1996-1998 PC-Trend Hard- und Software Vertriebs GmbH Dortmund, Germany (Creation and maintenance of their web site)

Teaching activities:

2003-2005 Teaching assistance at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

2002/2003 Teaching assistance at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and teaching of a statistical course at the national vocational school in Erlangen for assistant medical technicians

Programming skills: SAS, R/S+, C, Fortran, Pascal (Delphi)

Awards: - University of Auckland Best Doctoral Thesis Award (2006)

- 2008 JPL Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award 
 (Bayesian Comparison of Approximations of Gravitational Wave Chirp Signals)

Grants:

2003-2006 Marsden-funded scholarship at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

Memberships: International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)

International conferences:

Talk Maxent ‘04, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik Garching near Munich, Germany

Poster Adap’ski / MCMC’Ski 2005, Bormio, Italy

Talk 2nd ASBA Bayesian retreat: Bayesian topics in the tropics, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia

Poster ISBA 2008: 9th ISBA world meeting. Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia

Talk Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis (NRDA) 2008, Syracuse, NY

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