Resumé — Jadrian Miles

Education

2015 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Brown University.

Dissertation: “A Multi-Scale Model of Brain White-Matter Structure and Its Fitting Method for Diffusion MRI”. Committee: David H. Laidlaw (advisor), Peter J. Basser (NIH), John F. Hughes, and Benjamin J. Raphael.

2008 Sc.M. in Computer Science, Brown University.

2006 B.S. with Distinction in Computer Science, B.S. in Mathematics, Duke University.

Professional Experience

Software Engineering

2011 Google, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Intern in Software Engineering

2011 Back-end design, development (with MapReduce in C++), and deployment of a customer-facing user interface for latency analytics, which shipped on my last day.

2000–2008 Avid Technology, Inc., Tewksbury, MA

Intern in Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance, and Training Departments

2008 Research and development of machine learning algorithms for video deinterlacing.
2006 R&D of computer vision algorithms for scene reconstruction.
2004 Video codec evaluation; development of in-house codec testing workflow software.
2003 R&D of cryptographic steganography algorithms.
2003 Migration of full corporate code base to Visual Studio .net compiler; software refactoring and optimization.
2002 Software quality assurance; network and hardware construction and maintenance.
2000 Office assistant.

Languages, software, and hardware included Matlab, C, C++, Intel numerical libraries, PHP, JavaScript, Visual Studio 6.0 and .net, Eclipse IDE, KSH, Windows workstations and servers, and video editing hardware.

Teaching

2013–2015 Carleton College, Northfield, MN

Visiting Instructor in Computer Science Department

Taught Intro (2x), Data Structures (2x), Math of CS (2x), Algorithms (3x), and Software Design (1x). Significantly redesigned Data Structures.
Designed and taught a one-trimester elective on medical image analysis.
Advised five students as research assistants for two terms.
Advised three teams, of six students each, on two-term senior capstone projects.
Academic advisor for fourteen majors.

2008, 2013 Brown University, Providence, RI

Instructor in Computer Science Department

2013 Intro to Computation for the Humanities and Social Sciences: twice-weekly lectures, lesson planning, office hours, and management of a staff of undergraduate TAs.

Teaching Assistant in Computer Science Department

2008 Virtual Reality Design for Scientific Visualization: lesson planning, grading, in-class critiques, software (in-house shell and web scripts on Red Hat and CentOS Linux) and hardware support (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment).

2009–2011 New Urban Arts, Providence, RI

Academic mentor in math and science to high-school art students.

2004–2006 Duke University, Durham, NC

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Computer Science Department

Grading and office hours for Software Design, Computer Graphics, graduate-level Numerical Analysis, and Discrete Mathematics. Taught one lecture for Graphics.

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Professional Experience, continued

Skills

Programming and markup languages

Proficiency: C/C++, Matlab, compliant HTML, CSS, LaTeX.
Familiarity: Python/Numpy, Java, Make, JavaScript, PHP, SVG, csh, bash, SuperCollider.

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Software

Consistent use: Debian/Ubuntu Linux (since 2003), Mac OS X (since 2007), Windows XP (prior to 2006), Matlab (since 2004), Eclipse (2003–2009), Photoshop (since 2000), Inkscape (since 2006).

Activities

In my dissertation, “A Multi-Scale Model of Brain White-Matter Structure and Its Fitting Method for Diffusion MRI”, I developed a mathematical model for the millimeter-scale structure of the human brain and a set of algorithms for fitting this model to MRI brain-scan data. I write and run my research software on Linux and Mac OS X in C/C++, GLSL, Python/numpy, Matlab, and bash. I have collaborated with medical physicists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and statisticians in Providence, RI; St. Louis, MO; Edinburgh; and Cape Town. My work involves frequent presentations, including over 25 one-hour talks given to my research group and others since 2007.

Teaching Interests

Seminar on diffusion MRI physics, modeling, and analysis for brain science.
Undergraduate courses: Algorithms, Software Design, Computer Graphics, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Scientific Computing, Scientific Communication.
Introductory courses: Computer Science for Non-CS Students, Intro CS (in C++, Java, Python, etc.), Web Development, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Calculus.

Service

Reviewer for IEEE Visualization and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

2013–2015 Carleton College, Northfield, MN

2014 Faculty reviewer of sophomore writing portfolios.
2014 Interviewer for Digital Humanities postdoctoral candidates.
2014 Interviewer for Goldwater Scholarship candidates.

2012 Providence Public School Department, Providence, RI

Invited Evaluator of student demonstrations for Expanded Learning Opportunities.

2006–2010 Brown University, Providence, RI

2011 Member, CS Graduate Student Committee for PhD Admissions.
2008, 2010 Technical Officer, Brown Graduate Student Council.
2006–2009 CS Department Representative, Brown Graduate Student Council.
2008 Organizer, CS Graduate Student Committee for Faculty Search.
2007, 2008 Organizer, CS Graduate Student Recruitment.

2005–2006 Duke University, Durham, NC

2006 President, Duke University Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
2006 Member, Student Advisory Committee to the Office of the Dean of Students.
2005–2006 DJ, WXDU.

Publications and Presentations

Journal Papers

A. Gongvatana, R. Cohen, S. Correia, K.N. Devlin, J. Miles, H. Kang, H. Ombao, B. Navia, D.H. Laidlaw, and K.T. Tashima. “Clinical Contributors to Cerebral White Matter Integrity in HIV-Infected Individuals”. Journal of Neurovirology, 17(5):477–486, 2011.
R. Boller, S.A. Braun, J. Miles, and D.H. Laidlaw. “Application of Uncertainty Visualization Methods to Meteorological Trajectories”. Earth Science Informatics, 3(1–2):119–126, June 2010.
D.F. Keefe, D. Acevedo, J. Miles, F. Drury, S.M. Swartz, and D.H. Laidlaw. “Scientific Sketching for Collaborative VR Visualization Design”. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(4):835–847, Jul–Aug 2008.

Refereed Posters, Workshops, and Invited Talks

J. Miles and D.H. Laidlaw. “Predicting DTI Tractography Uncertainty from Diffusion-Weighted-Image Noise”. Poster at ISMRM 2012.
R. Boller, S. Braun, J. Miles, and D. Laidlaw. “Application of Uncertainty Visualization Methods to Meteorological Trajectories”. NASA Earth and Space Science Informatics Workshop, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. August 2009.
J. Miles. “A Specialized Inter-Curve Similarity Measure for Agglomerative Diffusion MRI Streamline Clustering”. Invited talk at the Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, National Institutes of Health. May 2009.
J. Miles, R.A. Cohen, and D.H. Laidlaw. “Tradeoffs in Supersampling of DTI Metrics”. Poster at ISMRM 2009.
J. Miles, D.F. Keefe, D. Acevedo, F. Drury, S.M. Swartz, and D.H. Laidlaw. “Teaching Science in Virtual Reality with a Freehand 3D Illustration”. Poster at IEEE InfoVis 2007.

Instructional Workshops

J. Miles. “Regular Expressions, Text Processing, and Web Scraping”, a two-hour Python tutorial at The Humanities and Technology Camp (New England) at Brown University. October 2012.
J. Miles. “Fibbly Math Patterns”, a one-hour classroom workshop for elementary- and middle-school–age students. Facilitated ten sessions total in Damariscotta, ME and Philadelphia, PA. November 2011 – January 2013.
A. Gongvatana, J. Miles. “Diffusion MRI: Theory and Practice”, a three-hour workshop in the Biostatistics Program, Department of Public Health, Brown University. October 2010.

Jadrian Miles, PhD