Software Engineer @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Consultant @ From November 2012 to June 2014 (1 year 8 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaGraduate Research Fellow @ Discovered high-accuracy numerical methods for fluid dynamics with multiphase flow and irregularly-shaped boundaries. Work in level set methods and optimization. Taught several quarters of introductory calculus and C++ programming. From September 2008 to March 2014 (5 years 7 months) Research Associate @ Identified tools to predict critical transitions on complex networks. Implemented a computational model of a PDE-driven dynamical system exhibiting critical transitions. From June 2012 to September 2012 (4 months)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics @ University of California, Los Angeles From 2008 to 2014 BS, Mathematics @ Brigham Young University From 2002 to 2008 Russell Howes is skilled in: Numerical Analysis, C++, Scientific Computing, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Partial Differential Equations, Machine Learning, Optimization, Programming, Matlab, Python, Algorithms