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Bradley M. Bell
Education
Employment
Summary
Brad Bell has the skills necessary for developing a scientific modeling software package that: 1) uses modern statistical methods, 2) uses state of the art numerical methods, 3) is fast, 4) is well documented, 5) is automatically tested with each change, 6) automatically installs on Windows, Unix, or Mac systems.
Work Experience
Public health modeling, underwater acoustic tracking and simulation, acoustic super resolution, modeling surface waves, nonlinear random effects parameter estimation, non-parametric population analysis, nonlinear pharmacokinetic analysis, creating a matrix based language, teaching linear programming, mentoring graduate students.
Research Experience
Estimating human mortality rates, linear and non-linear Kalman filtering and smoothing, algorithmic differentiation, deconvolution and stochastic function estimation, pharmacokinetic analysis, global positioning, Fourier spectrum estimation, autoregressive modeling, semi-infinite programming, error correcting codes; see list of publications .
Skills
Incremental iterative software development, optimization, numerical analysis, statistical analysis, Kalman filtering and smoothing, algorithmic differentiation, parametric and non-parametric scientific data analysis, Fourier spectral analysis, ordinary differential equation modeling and inversion, Monte-Carlo Methods, method of characteristics.
Computer Languages and Systems
Autoconf and Automake, Bash, Basic, Bugzilla, C++, C, CMake, Doxygen, Fortran, Git, Gdb, Html, Latex, Lex, Matlab, Make, Mathematica, Octave, Pascal, Python, R, Sed, Sphinx, Sql, Subversion, Unix, Visual-Studio, Windows, Xml, Yacc.
Example Software
Developed, distributed, and supported the following open source packages (this is a partial list to just demonstrate skills):
The algorithmic differentiation packages CppAD and cppad_py .
The statistical model and estimation of disease rates as functions of age and time dismod_at and at_cascade .
Laplace approximation of mixed effects models cppad_mixed .
The sphinx documentation extension package xrst .