Joseph Young

Contact

Joseph Young
joe@optimojoe.com

Research Interests

• PDE constrained optimization
• Solvers for mathematical programming
• High Performance Computing
• Domain specific languages for mathematical modeling
• Applications of convex programming

Education

• Rice University, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2005-2008
• Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics
• University of Waterloo, Combinatorics and Optimization, 2004-2005
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Mathematics, 2000-2004
• MS in Mathematics with Operations Research and Statistics Option
• BS in Mathematics with Applied Numerical Analysis Option

Interesting/Useful Tools for Language Design

• High Assurance Transformation System (HATS)

• Aurochs

• Camlp5

Publications

• An Application of Random Projection to Parameter Estimation in Partial Differential Equations (.pdf pending) with Denis Ridzal. Published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2012.
• A Cooperative Control Algorithm for Camera Based Observational Systems (.pdf) SAND2011-9324, 2012.
• Optimization-Based Modeling with Applications to Transport. Part 1. Abstract Formulation (.pdf pending) with Pavel Bochev and Denis Ridzal. Published in Large-Scale Scientific Computing, 2012.
• Optimization-Based Modeling with Applications to Transport. Part 2. The Optimization Algorithm (.pdf pending) with Denis Ridzal and Pavel Bochev. Published in Large-Scale Scientific Computing, 2012.
• Optimization-Based Modeling with Applications to Transport. Part 3. Computational Studies (.pdf pending) with Denis Ridzal and Pavel Bochev. Published in Large-Scale Scientific Computing, 2012.
• The Automatic Construction and Solution of a Partial Differential Equation from the Strong Form (.ps) (.pdf). Published in Large-Scale Scientific Computing, 2010.
• Program Analysis and Transformation in Mathematical Programming (.ps) (pdf). Ph.D Dissertation, 2008.
• Implementation of a Primal-Dual Method for SDP on a Shared Memory Parallel Architecture (.pdf) with Brian Borchers. Published in Computational Optimization and Applications., 2007.
• Advanced mobile networking, sensing, and controls (.pdf) with Feddema, John Todd, Byrne, Raymond Harry, Lewis, Christopher L., Harrington, John J., Kilman, Dominique Marie, Van Leeuwen, Brian P., Robinett, Rush D. III. SAND2005-1661, 2005.
• Implementation of a Cutting Plane Method for Semidefinite Programming (.ps) (pdf). Masters Thesis, 2004.

News Articles

• Optimal Cooperative Control Algorithms for Camera Based Observational Systems, 2010.

Prior Projects

• Parallel CSDP-A parallel primal-dual code for semidefinite programming
  
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• PICO-Parallel Integer and Combinatorial Optimization
  
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• ALEGRA-Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian General Research Application
  
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• COIN-OR OSI-Open Solver Interface
  
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