Matt Kammer-Kerwick

About Matt Kammer-Kerwick

Matt Kammer-Kerwick, PhD, is the Director of the Bureau of Business Research at the IC2…

Experience

1. Senior Research Scientist

   Ic2 Institute

   Apr 2014 — Present

   Matt Kammer-Kerwick, PhD, is an NSF-funded Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Business Research at the IC2 Institute and the principal investigator of the study D-ISN: TRACK 1: Collaborative Research: Disrupting Exploitation and Trafficking in Labor Supply Networks: Convergence of Behavioral and Decision Science to Design Interventions (NSF Award Number 20•••83), which is exploring the use of stochastic network and agent-based models to assess and develop disruptive interventions for illicit supply chains. He is a co-principle investigator of the Construction Industry Institute OS2 project research team on Goal Alignment and Congruence through Inter-Firm Cooperation. He is also a co-principal investigator on projects with the Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (IDVSA) in the School of Social Work. Current projects include the development and application of operations research models and data analytic methods toward solutions for social, environmental, and and economic justice problems; assessing the scope and prevalence of human trafficking in the State of Texas; and assessing the perceptions and prevalence of interpersonal violence at institutes of higher learning within the UT System. He has previously served the IC2 Institute as a consulting research director for short term projects where his research focused on hierarchical Bayesian hazard models to predict customer churn in broadband markets, decision tree methods for identifying profitable mobile customers, and a segmentation analysis of communication channel usage behaviors among mobile customers. Prior to his role at the IC2 Institute, he was a research consultant to industry for over 20 years and was President and Founder of Visionary Research, Inc. He has a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from The University of Texas at Austin and previous degrees in Physics and Systems Engineering.

Education

• SUNY New Paltz

  B.S, Physics

  1980 — 1985

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Ph.D, Information, Risk, and Operations Management

  1988 — 1993

• The University of Texas at Austin

  B.S, Engineering Science, Systems Engineering

  1984 — 1985

Skills

• Data Analysis
• Segmentation
• Experimental Design
• Optimization
• Multivariate Statistics
• Focus Groups
• Strategic Planning
• Forecasting
• Predictive Modeling
• Statistics
• Market Research
• Qualitative Market Research
• Quantitative Research
• Conjoint Analysis
• Spss
• Research