His research interests are in numerical analysis/scientific computation. He is currently working on a problem in computational biology involving the computation of an extremely large SVD (from genetic data). He has worked summers at ARL (Adelphi) on synthetic aperture radar imagery for Automatic Target Recognition (ATR), at NSWC-Dahlgren on an inverse PDE problem involving radar performance, and at the AFRL Sensors Directorate on an ATR/Sensor Data Fusion problem. He was on leave during the 2005-2006 academic year at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He has a textbook on numerical analysis through Addison-Wesley Longman.
In Fall 2008 he gave two sections of MA 101 Introductory Calculus and one section of MA436 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. In Winter 2008 he is giving two sections of MA 112 Calculus II and one section of MA 433 Numerical Analysis. In Spring 2008 he will be giving one section of MA 333 Introduction to Parallel Computing and one section of MA434 Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations (Topics in Numerical Analysis).
He studied at Syracuse University
(BS Mathematics, BSEE Electrical Engineering) and Brown
Universty (Sc.M., Ph.D. from the Division
of Applied Mathematics), where he wrote his dissertation on a chaotic
dynamical system with applications to numerical analysis under Philip
J. Davis. He has previously taught at Harvey
Mudd College (Claremont, CA), the Naval
Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA), the United
States Military Academy (West Point, NY) and Santa
Clara University (Santa Clara, CA). He lives in Terre
Haute, IN with his wife, Meg, and their children Derek (DJ), 17 years,
and Cori, 14 years. He is an instructor in the Filipino martial art of
Modern Arnis.
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