Matthew Piekenbrock

PhD Student

Matthew Piekenbrock
  • MS in Computer Science, Wright State University 
  • BS in Computer Science, Wright State University 

Matthew Piekenbrock is a doctoral student in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is advised by Jose Perea.

Piekenbrock is interested in unsupervised machine learning, statistical learning theory, topological data analysis, and computational geometry; much of his research involves building software for scientific computing and reproducible research. Right now, he is researching topological dimensionality reduction using fiber bundle theory, as well as spectral relaxations of the persistent rank invariant. 

Piekenbrock spent two years working on his doctorate at Michigan State University before following Perea to Northeastern in 2021. Before that, Piekenbrock had performed research at the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Wright State University. He has also spent several summers interning at NASA and Google Summer of Code. 

A fun fact about piekenbrock is that he was once in a car when it was struck by lightning