Jadrian Miles

http://jadrian.org
jadrian@cs.brown.edu jadrian.miles@gmail.com
(919) 593-8094

Box 1910
Department of Computer Science
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912, USA

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Education

2008–present: Brown University, Providence, RI

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science.

Dissertation: “A Multi-Scale Model of Brain White-Matter Structure and Its Solution from Diffusion MRI”

2008: Brown University, Providence, RI

Sc.M. in Computer Science.

2006: Duke University, Durham, NC

B.S. with Distinction in Computer Science, B.S. in Mathematics.

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Work

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 conversion-tracking latency data.

2008: Brown University, Providence, RI

Teaching Assistant in Computer Science Department

2008: CS137, Virtual Reality Design for Scientific Visualization: lesson planning, grading, in-class critiques, software support (in-house shell and web scripts on Red Hat and CentOS Linux) and hardware support (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment).

2000–2008 (seasonally): Avid Technology, Inc., Tewksbury, MA

Intern in Software Engineering, Software Quality Assurance, and Training

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.

Each of the above projects involved mostly independent work as well as direct collaboration with an individual manager. Software and hardware for these internships included Matlab, C, C++, Intel numerical libraries, PHP, JavaScript, Visual Studio 6.0 and .net, Eclipse IDE, KSH, Windows workstations and servers, and peripheral video editing hardware.

2004–2006: Duke University, Durham, NC

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Computer Science Department

2006: CS102, Discrete Mathematics: grading, office hours.
2005: CS250, Graduate Numerical Analysis: grading, office hours.
2005: CS124, Computer Graphics: grading, office hours, lectures.
2004: CS108, Software Design: grading, office hours.

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Skills

Programming and markup languages

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

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).

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Activities

In my dissertation, “A Multi-Scale Model of Brain White-Matter Structure and Its Solution from Diffusion MRI”, I develop a mathematical model for the millimeter-scale structure of the whole human brain and a set of algorithms for fitting this model to diffusion MRI scans of an individual's brain. I collaborate in my academic work with human brain researchers (including medical physicists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and statisticians) both locally and around the world. I write and run programs on Linux and Mac OS X systems in C/C++, Python, Matlab, and bash to process MRI data from hospitals and research facilities in Providence, RI; St. Louis, MO; Edinburgh; and Cape Town. My work involves frequent presentations, including over 15 one-hour talks given to my research group and others since 2007. I also maintain an internal wiki for documentation within my research group and mentor an undergraduate student.

My personal activities include volunteer service in academic and community organizations, cooking and entertaining, mountain biking and bike commuting, dancing, creating computer- and mathematics-based visual art and music, collecting and listening to music, attending local music shows, skiing, backpacking, travel, and karaoke. I used Ubuntu Linux exclusively for personal computing from 2005 until supplementing it with Mac OS X in 2007.

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Service

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

2009–2011: New Urban Arts, Providence, RI

2009–2011: Math and science academic mentor to high-school art students.

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: Member, 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 ACM.
2006: Member, Student Advisory Committee to the Office of the Dean of Students.
2005–2006: DJ, WXDU.

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Honors

2002–2006: Duke University: William D. Jones Memorial Alumni Scholarship (merit-based, partial tuition).
2002: Microsoft: National High School Computer Science Scholarship.
2002: COMAP: Outstanding Solution in Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
2002: INFORMS: INFORMS Prize in COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

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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.
A. McCauley, J. Michener, and J. Miles. “The Fountain That Math Built”. UMAP Journal, 23(3):221–234, Fall 2002.

Refereed Conference Posters

J. Miles and D.H. Laidlaw. “Predicting DTI Tractography Uncertainty from Diffusion-Weighted-Image Noise”. Poster at ISMRM 2012.
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.

Workshops

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.

Invited Talks

A. Gongvatana, J. Miles. “Diffusion MRI: Theory and Practice”. Biostatistics Program, Department of Public Health, Brown University. October 2010.
J. Miles. “A Specialized Inter-Curve Similarity Measure for Agglomerative Diffusion MRI Streamline Clustering”. Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, National Institutes of Health. May 2009.