Gregory J. Matthews is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Director of the Center for Data Science and Consulting at Loyola University Chicago. He received his doctorate in statistics from the University of Connecticut in 2011 and both his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Matthews' research interests include missing data, statistical shape analysis, sports analytics, and statistical consulting. He won the 2014 Kaggle March Machine Learning Madness competition, was a SABR Contemporary Baseball Analysis Award winner in 2016, is a three time finalist (2020, 2021, 2022) and two time winner (2020, 2021) of the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference (CMSAC) Reproducible Research Competition, and a 2023 NFL Big Data Bowl finalist.