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Bradley M. Bell
Principal Mathematician
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
1013 Ne. 40th Street, Seattle, WA, 98105-6698
206-543-6855,  bradbell@washington.edu, http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell

Education
 B.A.:   in mathematics and physics from Saint Lawrence University in 1973.
 M.A.:   in mathematics form University of Washington in 1976.
 Ph.D.:  in mathematics from University of Washington in 1984.

Employment
 1973-76:  Teaching Assistant for University of Washington.
 1976-78:  Computer Programmer for Flow Research.
 1978-82:  Computer Programmer for Applied Physics Laboratory.
 1982-84:  Student Fellow of Applied Physics Laboratory.
 1984-  :  Mathematician for Applied Physics Laboratory.
 2002-08:  Part time lecturer for Mathematics Department.
 2010-  :  Mathematician for Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Work Experience
Public health modeling, underwater acoustic tracking and simulation, acoustic super resolution, modeling surface waves, nonlinear random effects parameter estimation, non-parametric population analysis, nonlinear pharmacokinetic analysis, creating a matrix based language, teaching linear programming, mentoring graduate students.

Research Experience
Estimating human mortality rates, linear and non-linear Kalman filtering and smoothing, algorithmic differentiation, deconvolution and stochastic function estimation, neuron modeling, pharmacokinetic analysis, global positioning, Fourier spectrum estimation, autoregressive modeling, semi-infinite programming, error correcting codes; see list of publications .

Skills Summary
Incremental iterative software development, optimization, numerical analysis, statistical analysis, Kalman filtering and smoothing, algorithmic differentiation, parametric and non-parametric scientific data analysis, Fourier spectral analysis, ordinary differential equation modeling and inversion, Monte-Carlo Methods, method of characteristics.

Computer Languages and Systems
Auto(conf|make), Bash, Basic, Bugzilla, C++, C, Doxygen, Fortran, Git, Gdb, Html, Lex, Matlab, Make, Mathematica, Octave, Pascal, Python, R, Sed, Subversion, Unix, Visual-Studio, Windows, Xml, Yacc.

Example Software
Designed the O-Matrix language and developed its compiler and mathematical algorithms. Designed and implemented the numerical methods in the SAAM II pharmacokinetic analysis software. Developed, distributed, and supported the open source COIN-OR algorithmic differentiation package CppAD . Developed, distributed, and supported other freely available open source packages ; e.g., the documentation tool  omhelp, disease modeling program  dismod4, Python algorithmic package  pycppad, constrained Kalman smoother  ckbs, L1 fitting and regularization tool  l1_regular, a library for conversion from Matlab to C++  mat2cpp, and a program that models surface waves on the ocean  sar_iw.
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