Travis C. Johnson(traviscj)

Travis C. Johnson this domain (at) this domain (dot) com Ph.D. Candidate Engineering Science and Applied Math Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Advisor: Andreas Wächter

Research Interests

• Nonlinear Optimization

  • Research with Andreas Wächter: Hotstarting NLP Solvers

• Computational Neuroscience

  • Research with Eric Shea-Brown

Presented Work

• Talk at INFORMS 2012: Toward Hot-Started NLP Solvers

• Poster at SIAM AN09: Correlation Transfer and Bifurcations in the Izhikevich Model

Software

• neurowriter - a neuron model simulator/description language with C-language output

• listm - a list manager in python

• GenHosts - a tool for managing hosts.allow files on collections of systems

• tcjblog - a blog platform built on jemdoc

Teaching

• Teacher's Assistant at Northwestern University

  • Engineering Analysis 4: Differential Equations

• Teacher's Assistant at University of Washington

  • AMATH 301, Beginning Scientific Computing

• Computer Lab Assistant at University of Washington

  • AMATH 352, Applied Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis

  • AMATH 410, Introduction to Computational Biology and Chemistry

Education

• M.S., Engineering Science & Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University(June 2010)

• B.S., Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences: Discrete Math and Algorithms, University of Washington (June 2009)

• coursera:

  • Machine Learning

Professional Associations

• IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  • Vice President of IEEE-NU (2011-2012 and 2012-2013)

  • Technology Directory of IEEE-NU, Northwestern University's branch of the IEEE. (2010-2011)

• SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

• ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

• ARRL: American Radio Relay League

Other interests

• my blog

• Ham Radio(Extra License): W9TCJ (formerly AB9XS)

• Slide Rules

• Microprocessors & Microcontrollers

• Programming contests:

  • IEEEXtreme 5.0

  • Topcoder

  • Project Euler

  • Coderbyte

  • Rosalind

• Running

• My computing setup

• Intel Science and Engineering Fair

• cryptography