Education | Work Experience | Achievements | Teaching | Mentoring | Selected Technical Skills

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ph.D Computational Science and Engineering, 2012 -- 2016 (Atlanta, GA)

• Research Assistant 2012, NDSEG Fellow 2013-16, Teaching Assistant 2016
• Adviser: Professor David A. Bader
• Dissertation: Graph Analysis Combining Numerical Statistical and Streaming Techniques
• Qualifier: Computational Data Analysis (ML) and High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Committee: Rich Vuduc, Haesun Park, Polo Chau, Dana Randall, G. Sanders (LLNL)

University of Florida

B.S. Mathematics, 2009 -- 2012 (Gainesville, FL)

• Summa cum laude
• Thesis: A Ramsey Theorem for Indecomposable Matchings

Work Experience

• University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

  Assistant Professor, Jan 2021 - Present

  • Leading the Generalized Algebraic Techniques Advancing Science (GATAS) Lab
  • Research focus: advancing computational science and engineering with the techniques of applied category theory
  • Teaching focus: scientific computing

• Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) (Atlanta, GA)

  Research Engineer, May 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Conduct research into high performance data analysis algorithms and applications
  • Win and manage federally funded research contracts
  • Deliver applied research projects to sponsors such as source code, web applications, technical reports
  • Mentor and advise students in connection to research projects

• Ionic Security (Atlanta, GA)

  Data Scientist, 2015

  • Developed data analytics software
  • Designed a service oriented architecture for near real time analysis written in Go and Julia
  • Leveraged time series and network database technologies including Heka, InfluxDB, RabbitMQ, and ElasticSearch

• DOE -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA)

  Institute for Scientific Computing Research Intern, 2014

  • Studied relationship between numerical accuracy of eigensolvers and solution quality of mincut graph partitioning
  • Developed very fast approximate eigensolvers for large graphs
  • Applied probabilistic reasoning to describe numerical computations
  • Presented results at LLNL poster session

• IDA -- Center for Computing Sciences (Bowie, MD)

  Adjunct Faculty, 2013

  • Conducted research into Malware structure and similarities by studying execution patterns of malicious programs
  • Developed clustering and methods for understanding the structure of malicious programs with graph analytics
  • Built a high performance distributed system for conducting these analyses with ZeroMQ communication

Funding

Dates	Role	Sponsor	Title	Agreement	Amount
2023 -- 2026	Principal Investigator	ONR	Domain Transfer for Continuity of Performance Across Synthetic Aperture Sonar	N00014-23-S-B001	500K
2022 -- 2023	Co-Investigator	ARO	Machine Learning-based Sensor Fusion for Electro-optical and Infrared Target Detection	FA8075-18D-0002-DO015-Gators	175K
2022 -- 2025	Principal Investigator	DARPA	ASKEM: Generalized Algebraic Techniques Advancing Scientific Discovery	HR00112220038	5.8M
2022 -- 2023	Principal Investigator	DARPA	Director's Fellowship: Model Aware Scientific Computing	~W911NF2110323	250K
2022 -- 2024	Co-PI	DARPA	Perceptual Task Guidance: ENKIx	HR00112220004	4.8M
2020 -- 2022	Principal Investigator	DARPA	Young Faculty Award: Model Aware Scientific Computing	Agreement No.~W911NF2010292	500K
2020 -- 2021	Principal Investigator	DARPA	AIE: Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction Extended	Agreement No.~HR00111990008	700K
2019 -- 2021	Principal Investigator	DARPA	Directly Computable Models: Generalized Algebraic Theories Enhancing Multiphysics	Agreement No.~HR00112090067	1M
2018 -- 2020	Principal Investigator	DARPA	Artificial Intelligence Exporation: Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction	Agreement No.~HR00111990008	1M
2019 -- 2023	Principal Investigator	DARPA	Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST)	Agreement No.~HR001119C0135-001	400K
2016 -- 2018	Principal Investigator	NIJ	Developing Novel Means of Evidence Collection	Grant Number 2016-MU-MU-K004	400K
2019 -- 2022	Co-PI	ONR	Extracting, Explaining, and Estimating Information in Sonar Data (E3ISD)	Contract No. N00014-19-C-2069	695K
2019 -- 2021	Co-PI	ONR	Mine Counter-measures Situational Awareness		375K
2016 -- 2019	Key Personnel	ONR	Performance Estimation of Underwater Mine Counter-measures Operations	Contract No. N00014-16-C-3041	990K
2016 -- 2019	Key Personnel	GTRI SI	Multi-source Anticipatory Intelligence		900K

Achievements

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

May 2022	American Mathematical Society: Mathematical Research Community on Applied Category Theory
2018	Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- XAMINE Challenge
2013-16	National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship
2012-16	Presidential Fellowship for Graduate Study at Georgia Tech
2011-12	University Scholar at the University of Florida
2012	Kermit Sigmon Scholarship for service to the mathematical community
2015	Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society, Georgia Tech Chapter
2012	Phi Beta Kappa, University of Florida Chapter

Leadership and Service

2022	Proposal Referee: Army Research Office, Topic: Network Science, ARO, Proposal Referee in Network Science
2022	Journal Referee: Compositionality, Editor: Pawel Sobocinski
2023	Applied Category Theory Conference General Chair and Program Committee Member
2022	Applied Category Theory Conference Organizer and Program Committee Member
Aug 2022	DARPA AI Strategy meeting for UF, S. Jaishankar, G. Michailidis, F. Masters, A. Zare, J. P. Fairbanks, Lewis and Burke Associates
Spring 2021	Upper Division Cirriculum Committee, Chair: Jeremiah Blanchard, UF CISE Developed Syllabi for new courses in CISE, including COP 4533 Algorithms Abstraction and Design
Spring 2021	Programming Language Task Force, Chair: Parisa Rashidi, UF HWCOE
Feb 2021	PhD Student Recruitment Panel, UF CISE
2019	JuliaCon Organizing Program Committee
2018	JuliaCon Organizing Committee Vice Program Chair Organized the technical program of a 3 day international conference on the Julia programming language Ran Program Committee meetings to decide on accepted abstracts and presentations Led poster session preparations
2017	Tau Beta Pi Atlanta Alumni Chapter President Organized professional networking events for local Atlanta Area Engineers
2015	Georgia Tech College of Computing Graduate Student Association VP for the School of CSE Represented department students to university administration committees on curriculum and funding Organized social and professional networking events for graduate students Chaired the organizing committee of HotCSE graduate research seminar providing early career presentation opportunities to graduate students
2011	Univ. Florida Pi Mu Epsilon Chapter President Organized a series of talks for the mathematics students at UF on diverse mathematical topics and skills incl. LaTeX, programming and technical communication in the field.
2009	Eagle Scout

Teaching

University of Florida

Spring 2024	COT 4501 - Numerical Analysis a Computational Approach
Spring 2022	COT 4501 - Numerical Analysis a Computational Approach
Fall 2021	CIS 4930 - Abstraction Composition Computation
Fall 2021	CIS 6930 - Abstraction Composition Computation

Professional Education

Aug 2022	CANMOD Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Epidemics Workshop, Organizer and Instructor 1 week training for mathematical epidemiologists to learn applied category theoretic tools, Nathaniel Osgood, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver, Canada (virtual due to Covid-19)
Spring 2021	ACT Adjoint School Instructor, Organizers: S. Libkind, D. J. Myers, Coteacher: E. Patterson, TA: O. Lynch, Applied Category Theory Conference
Spring 2019	Data Analytics Methodology with J. Poovey
Fall 2018	Programming for Data Science with Beverly Wright
Spring 2017	Data Analytics Methodology with J. Poovey, D. Ediger, and M. Rost.
Fall 2016	Big Data Analytics with J. Poovey, D. Ediger, and M. Rost.

Teaching Assistant at Georgia Tech

Spring 2016	CSE 6643 Numerical Linear Algebra with Prof. Haesun Park
Spring 2014	CSE 6220 High Performance Computing with Prof. Srinivas Aluru

Mentoring

Dates	Name	Degree	Graduation	Employment
2024-Present	Richard Samuelson	PhD Student	2024	Thesis Advisor
2022-2023	University Multicultural Mentoring Program		2023	UMMP Mentor
2022-Present	Adam Gregory	PhD	2022	Thesis Committee
2022-Present	Hong Yu	PhD	2022	Thesis Committee
2022-Present	Daniel A. Delgado	PhD	2022	Thesis Committee
2021-Present	Luke Morris	PhD	2021	Thesis Advisor
2021-Present	Tyler Hanks	PhD Student, NSF GRFP Fellow	2021	Thesis Advisor
2021-22	Kris Brown	Post-Doctoral Researcher	2022	UF
2021	UF HWCOE Mentoring Academy Participant		2021
2021	ACT Adjoint School		2021	A. Knoerr, G. Generaux, A. Searle
2021-2022	Kris Brown	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University	2021
2020-Present	Sophie Libkind	Mathematics, Stanford University	2021
2020-Present	Owen Lynch	Statistics University of Utrecht	2021
2021-22	Julian Perez	BS BME GT	2021
2021	Stephen Wellburg	BS DAS UF	2021
2018-19	Sreenath Reparti	BS ISYE Georgia Tech	2019	KPMG
2019	Kun Cao	MS CS Georgia Tech	2019	GT
2019	Abhinav Mehndiratta		2019	Google Summer of Code
2016-18	Rohit Varkey	MS CS Georgia Tech	2018	Google
2016-19	Micah Halter	BS CS Georgia Tech	2019	GTRI
2016	Nate Knauf	BS CS Georgia Tech	2019	GT
2015	Pushkar Godbole	MS CSE Georgia Tech	2016	Yelp

Selected Technical Skills

• Programming languages (most familiar to least) Julia, Golang, SQL, Python, C, Bash
• Computational Data Analysis (pandas, sklearn, Jupyter)
• Web development with Golang and Python (flask)
• Database Applications primarily with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Practical computing skills such as \texttt{LINUX, git, make,} \LaTeX
• Continuous Integration/Deployment

Research

Panels

May 2022	HWCOE Early Career Researcher Award Panel, UF ECR Development Workshop Host: Forrest Masters (UF)
May 2019	Abstract Representations of Scientific Models, Paul Cohen (Pitt), Eric Davis (Galois Inc), Alec Nielson (Azimov.io), DARPA ASKE Principal Investigator Meeting Host: Josh Elliot (DARPA), Moderator: J. P. Fairbanks
May 2019	Toward the Modeling Stack Panel, Joshua Elliot (DARPA), John Bachman (Harvard Medical School), Eric Davis (Galois), Clayton Morrison (Arizona), J. P. Fairbanks (GTRI), Modeling the World's Systems 2019 Host: Paul Cohen (Pitt), Moderator: Bruce Childers (Pitt)