Curriculum Vitae

Joseph Andrew Driscoll

Bradley University, Office of Engineering Physics

College of Engineering and Technology

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Peoria, Illinois 61625

Phone: 309-***-****, FAX: 309-***-****

Email: abo038@r.postjobfree.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Theoretical and computational nanoscale physics, computational methods for electronic

structure calculations, high-performance computing, robotics, artificial intelligence

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Physics, May 2011

Dissertation: Electron field emission in nanostructures: A first-principles study

Advisor: Prof. Kalman Varga

M.S., Vanderbilt University, Physics, May 2008

Advisor: Prof. Kalman Varga

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Electrical Engineering, December 2000

Dissertation: A comparative analysis of model parameters in evolutionary robotics

Advisor: Prof. Richard Alan Peters II

M.S., Vanderbilt University, Electrical Engineering, May 1998

Thesis: Direction of attention using a model of human visual selection

Advisor: Prof. Richard Alan Peters II

B.E., Vanderbilt University, Electrical Engineering, May 1996, magna cum laude

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, Bradley University Office of Engineering PhysicsAugust 2011Present

Responsible for all aspects of teaching two courses (with labs) per semester. Duties

included preparation of course materials, lecturing, grading, and providing tutoring

outside of class. Research activities include planning, conducting, and publishing

results

of original research.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Vanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Physics and

AstronomyMay 2011August 2011

Conducted research in theoretical condensed matter physics and computational physics.

Work includes software development with first-principles, time-dependent density

functional theory code. Served as co-organizer for a summer school on computational

nanoscience held in June 2011. (Advisor: Prof. Kalman Varga

)

Research Assistant, Vanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Physics and AstronomyDecember 2006May 2011

Conducted research in theoretical condensed matter physics and computational physics.

Work includes software development with first-principles, time-dependent density

functional theory code. Personally designed, assembled, and served as administrator for

a high-performance computing cluster. (Advisor: Prof. Kalman Varga

)

Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Physics and AstronomyAugust 2005December 2006

Administered weekly undergraduate laboratories in introductory physics. Responsibilities

included lectures, equipment preparation, grading, and office hours.

Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State UniversityDepartment of Computer

Science

August 2002August 2005

Responsible for all aspects of teaching two to three courses per semester. Duties

included preparation of course materials, lecturing, grading, and providing tutoring

outside of class. Supervised student workers. Research activities included planning,

conducting, and publishing results of original research. Provided research guidance to

Master s Degree students. Served on multiple departmental committees.

Instructor, Vanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer

Science

Summer 1999

Responsible for all aspects of Signals and Systems course, including lecturing, creating

exams and assignments, grading, and office hours.

Head Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Electrical Engineering

and Computer Science

Fall 1998Fall 1999

Assumed all responsibilities of Teaching Assistant position. In addition, personally

responsible for readiness of laboratory facilities. Trained and supervised other teaching

assistants.

Summer Researcher, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AL

Summer 1998

Created image processing algorithms for visually guided satellite docking system.

Developed system to estimate attitude of International Space Station from images. Used

CAD models of International Space Station components to create highly accurate VRML

model.

Visiting Researcher, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Intelligent Systems Division, Tsukuba,

Japan

Summer 1997

Developed software for a stereo active vision system capable of fixating upon targets

using a model of human visual attention. Implemented color segmentation and tracking

system.

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Teaching Assistant, Vanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Electrical Engineering and

Computer ScienceFall 1996Spring 1998

Administered weekly undergraduate laboratories in Engineering Science, Digital Logic,

Microprocessors I, and Microprocessors II. Assisted with the design and implementation

of student projects, grading, personal tutoring, teaching weekly help sessions, and

lecturing.

Graduate Student Researcher, Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics LaboratoryAugust 1996December 2000

Developed mobile robot teleoperation and mapping software. Created software for

intelligent gaze control of stereo camera head using model of human visual attention.

(Advisor: Prof. Richard Alan Peters II)

INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT

Software Developer, Genetics Squared, Inc., Milan, MI

June 2001August 2002

Researched and reported on functional genomics sector of bioinformatics industry.

Developed software for analysis of genetic and other types of data. Used neural

networks, statistics, evolutionary algorithms, and other machine learning techniques to

analyze high-dimensionality data sets. Used C++, Perl, and STL. The PVM architecture

was used to develop a computer cluster for high-performance computing.

Software Developer, Widevine Technologies, Inc., Advanced Technology Group, Seattle,

WA

September 2000May 2001

Developed software using C++ and Perl to gather, analyze, and data mine Internet

routing data. Evaluated software packages for use in network monitoring. Created neural

network and geography-based designs for optimal delivery of Internet content.

Participated in design reviews.

GRANTS

2011: Awarded a Bradley University Caterpillar Fellowship for project Evaluation of GPU

Processing for Computational Nanoscience . The amount of the award is $5000.

(With Prof. Cen Li, MTSU) Spring 2003. Obtained $35,000 from MTSU s College of Basic

and Applied Sciences for robotics equipment, which was used both to enhance classroom

teaching and to extend research activities.

COLLABORATIONSFall 2002August 2005: Collaborative relationship with industry via work with Genetics

Squared, Inc. Personal work within this collaboration included software development, data

analysis, and the development and application of bioinformatics techniques.

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Spring 2003August 2005: Collaborative research relationship with Dr. Frank C. Bailey

from MTSU s Biology department. Work included development of bioinformatics techniques

to analyze biological data for bacterial source identification.

Fall 2011 Present: Co-founded Nanotechnology Research Group at Bradley University

with Profs. Kelly Roos and Shannon Timpe.

STUDENT SUPERVISION

(MTSU) Jonathan Hicks, M.S. student in computer science, 2002-2005 (degree received

2005).

(Bradley) Jerred Peterson, M.S. student in electrical engineering.

TEACHING (MTSU)

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

CSCI 1000 Computer Literacy (Summer 2003)

CSCI 1150 Computer Orientation (Summer 2003, Summer 2004)

CSCI 1170 Computer Science I (Spring 2005)

CSCI 6600 Selected Topics in Computer Science: Artificial Life (Summer 2004)

TEACHING (BRADLEY)

PHY 110 University physics I (calculus-based introductory physics) (Spring 2012)

PHY 201 University physics II (calculus-based introductory physics) (Fall 2011, Spring

2012)

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

April 18-19, 2012: (Bradley) Served as judge at Bradley University's Student Scholarship

Exposition. Reviewed eleven poster presentations by undergraduate and graduate students.

Fall 2002 August 2005: (MTSU) Served as member of departmental undergraduate

curriculum and institutional effectiveness committees. Beginning Fall 2003, served as

faculty

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member of departmental student advisory board. Spring 2003 participant of MTSU s Faculty

Leadership Academy.

Spring 2012 Present: (Bradley) Member of University-level Sakai Advisory Committee

(Sakai is a web-based course management system used by Bradley)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Spring 2012: Served as mentor for FIRST Robotics Competition team at Metamora High

School, Metamora, IL.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE REVIEWING

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Experienced with many areas of computational physics, numerical methods, artificial

intelligence, image processing, and data analysis

Extensive software development experience using a variety of languages and frameworks:

Fortran, C, C++, Visual C++/MFC, STL, Perl, Python, assembly language, Java, Lisp, etc.

MPI for parallel software development

Electronic structure methods, especially density functional theory

Familiar with a variety of molecular visualization tools (VMD, VESTA, PyMol, etc.) and

several electronic structure codes (VASP, Octopus, OpenMX, etc.)

Experience with general tools such as Mathematica, Matlab, Octave, OpenDX, etc.

HTML/CSS, Apache web server, networking hardware/software

Linux and Windows system administration, MS Office, OpenOffice, etc.

High-performance computer cluster design, construction, and administration

Robotics software/hardware, microprocessors, analog/digital circuit design, hardware

interfacing

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

Member of American Physical Society, IEEE, ACM

Member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Societies

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PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

PRESENTATIONS

"Computational diffusion model of reconstructed regions in Ag/Si epitaxial growth," APS

March Meeting 2012, Boston, MA, February 27-March 2, 2012.

"First-principles study of field emission from graphene nanoribbons," AVS 58th

International

Symposium and Exhibition, Nashville, TN, October 30-November 4, 2011.

"Spin-polarized field emission from nanotubes," APS March Meeting 2011, Dallas, TX,

March 21-25, 2011.

"First-principles calculations of electron field emission in nanostructures," Condensed

Matter

and Optics Seminar series, Vanderbilt University Department of Physics and Astronomy,

March 4, 2011.

"Study of convergence in quantum transport calculations," APS March Meeting 2010,

Portland, OR, March 15-19, 2010.

Presentation on Current Research to MTSU s local ACM chapter, April 20, 2004.

A Virtual Machine Environment for Teaching the Development of System Software, ACM

Southeast 2004 Conference, Huntsville, AL, April 2-3, 2004.

Presentation on Research Methods to MTSU s NSF CSEM Students, November 15, 2002.

Presentation on Evolutionary Robotics to MTSU s local ACM chapter, October 3, 2002.

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"Comparison of neural network architectures for the modeling of robot inverse

kinematics,"

IEEE SoutheastCon 2000

Conference, Nashville, TN, April 7-9, 2000

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