Joseph Young

Rowing down the Grand Canyon

Education

• Rice University, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2005-Present
• 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

Research Interests

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

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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Publications

• Program Analysis and Transformation in Mathematical Programming (pdf). Ph.D Dissertation, 2008.
• Implementation of a Primal-Dual Method for SDP on a Shared Memory Parallel Architecture with Brian Borchers.  Published in Computational Optimization and Applications., 2007
• Advanced mobile networking, sensing, and controls 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 (pdf).  Masters Thesis, 2004.

Interesting/Useful Transformation Systems

• High Assurance Transformation System (HATS)