Our speakers are listed here in alphabetical order. More details on their talks coming soon!
We're still looking for more speakers! See our Call for Speakers page for more information on how to submit your talk. Deadline February 28.
Hank Anderson
Vice President of Software Development, Stat-Ease, Inc.
Hank joined Stat-Ease in 1998 and became Vice President in 2020. He has spent the last two decades putting his expertise to use in the development and refining of Stat-Ease 360 and Design-Expert® software. He is also the lead developer of dexpy, an open source Python module for doing design of experiments: https://github.com/statease/dexpy.
Hank graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Metropolitan State University, St. Paul in 2004.
Dr. Martin Bezener
President/CTO, Stat-Ease, Inc.
Martin joined Stat-Ease in 2014 and was named President in 2020. Since then he has been putting his skills and knowledge to use in the development of Stat-Ease 360 and Design-Expert® software. He also does consulting projects and teaches Stat-Ease workshops on DOE. In addition, Martin co-authored the book Formulation Simplified: Finding the Sweet Spot through Design and Analysis of Experiments with Mixtures.
Besides DOE expertise, Martin is skilled in Bayesian statistics and statistical modeling, and statistical computing. Martin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Loyola, Chicago. He earned his PhD in Statistics in 2015 from the University of Minnesota.
Morten Bormann Nielsen
Product Manager, Danish Technological Institute
Bio coming soon!
Erik Coppens
Scientific Collaborator & Domain Responsible, Belgian National Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (ONDRAF/NIRAS)
After his academic education, both in civil and industrial chemical engineering, Eric's professional career started in 2009 in a concrete research laboratory for the construction sector. He soon switched careers towards the nuclear sector and became a research engineer at the Belgian nuclear waste agency. It was there, through a collaboration with a nuclear research facility in France, that he was introduced to design of experiments.
Since 2020, he is Domain Responsible for both the Belgian nuclear waste management organization and the Belgian nuclear research center. In this role, Eric tries to coordinate research projects to explore synergies between the two organizations, reducing the double spending of research budgets.
Up to now his career has been in an R&D-environment. Design of experiments is from his experience an important tool helping to address the research challenges in a professional way.
Andrew Macpherson
Managing Director, Prism Training & Consultancy
Andrew Macpherson has over 20 years of software development experience, and enjoys the most challenging data management, statistical visualization and analysis problems. As Managing Director of Prism Training & Consultancy, he has executive responsibility for the business; he also maintains the company’s statistical software tools, curates their library of training materials, and is a Course Leader for a number of their online and on-site workshops.
Andrew loves using, adapting and making software – and his programming, data management, analysis and visualisation skills are well suited to a wide range of
useful applications.
He has produced countless macros, scripts, automations and programs for more than 20 years; these greatly assist Prism’s clients, and allow the other Prism team members’ ideas to become valuable software tools. Andrew also plays a key role in moving an ever-expanding range of statistical tools to Prism's website, making them freely available to everyone.
Oliver Thunich
Managing Director, STATCON GmbH
Bio coming soon!
Frank Westad
Data Analyst, Idletechs
Adjunct Professor, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Bio coming soon!