Project Development

Laurel R. Keyes, Ph.D ***********@*****.***

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home: 619-***-****

San Diego, CA 92101

cell: 518-***-****

Objective: An R&D position with leadership potential, technical challenging

issues, high demand of innovative solutions.

Education Areas of Technical Focus

Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences, RPI, 2007 Supervised Classification

GPA 3.75/4.0 Detection / Estimation

Recipient of the ONR Graduate Research Theory

Traineeship Feature Extraction

Thesis: Deterministic and stochastic internal Statistical Signal

wave effects on shallow water acoustic Processing

propagation Mathematical Modeling

M.S., Mathematical Sciences, RPI, 2007 Expertise with MATLAB, C

GPA 3.75/4.0 Algorithm Development

B.A., Mathematics, Mount Holyoke, 1998 Autonomous Systems

GPA 3.68/4.0

cum laude with Honors Thesis: Curvature at

Singular Points and the Newton-Puiseux

Theorem

Honor Society: Sigma Xi

Highlights of Relevant Accomplishments

Championed the development and demonstration of Multimodal Early

Detection Interactive Classifier (MEDIC) for detection of Mild Traumatic

Brain Injury (MTBI), (~$1M over three years).

Led R&D group to advance neurocognitive biomarkers to detect and diagnose

MTBI in athletic and military populations.

History of high achievement spanning data analysis, leadership, and

innovation with extensive skills in technical writing, presentation, and

communication.

Lead researcher on various surveillance programs (algorithm development,

proof of concept, and demonstrations - $200K-400K/yr).

Extensive background in mathematical modeling, statistical signal

processing, automatic target recognition, detection and surveillance.

Recipient of Office of Naval Research Graduate Traineeship

Served on MIT LL Campus Recruiting, Circle Mentoring and Technical

Women's Network, RPI Graduate Advisory Council

US Citizen, GENSER Secret

Experience

MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL), Lexington MA 2008-2013, Technical Staff in

Advanced Sensor Techniques. Principal researcher and customer interface on

research and development programs in the areas of neurocognitive biomarkers

and sonar surveillance including, detection, feature extraction, and

classification (Summaries below)

2011-2013 Principal Investigator for multimodal neurocognitive

biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury research, winning proposal in MIT LL

Challenge. Managed team of seven researchers to design successful

prototype; Led data collection efforts in two human subject studies,

performed and managed data analysis; Identified new funding sources and

prepared multiple grant applications to expand project scope and

development.

2012-2013 Lead Researcher for Passive Sonar Automation Technology.

Collaborated with customer, external developers, and government

organizations to design comprehensive system architecture for field-level

surveillance to detect, classify, localize and track maritime contacts;

Developed and implemented various machine learning and multi-sensor data

association techniques for multi-target tracking including Expectation-

Maximization and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods.

2011-2013, Researcher for Submarine Collision Avoidance System.

Analyzed performance and extended development of an automated collision

avoidance system developed for the Navy. Chief author on project report;

Presented results at MIT LL Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance

Division Seminar; Technology planned to transition to Fleet in 2015 for

operational use.

2010-2011 Lead Researcher for Distributed Systems Processing.

Investigated transition of existing passive sonar automation to

surveillance community under ONR program; Responsible for development of

new target detectors; successfully transitioned to Fleet in 2013 for

operational use.

2008-2013 Technical Contributor on automated classifier using passive

sonar acoustic signals

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Comp.

Sci., (RPI) Troy, NY 2000 - 2008, Postdoctoral Research Associate.

Responsible for analysis of discretization error in 3-D tomographic medical

imaging technique; Determined superior adaptive mesh algorithm for use in

fluorescence diffuse optical tomography that demonstrated reduction of

blurring and error in reconstructed images; Gained experience in linear

integral equation analysis, inverse problem theory, regularization, and

image processing techniques

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dept. of Mathematical Sciences., (RPI)

Troy, NY 2002 - 2004, Fellow, Office of Naval Research Traineeship in

Underwater Acoustics. Analyzed sensitivity of stochastic internal wave

amplitude effects on acoustic propagation; Showed fully 3-D acoustic

interaction with internal waves can result in energy exchange between

acoustic modes for certain orientations; Categorized internal wave

refraction as horizontal Lloyd mirror effect

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dept. of Mathematical Sciences., (RPI)

Troy, NY 2000 - 2006, Research and Teaching Assistant. Technical research

areas: deterministic and stochastic modeling of oceanographic and

environmental phenomena, acoustic propagation, wave physics, Parabolic

Equation (PE) computation techniques.

Programming Languages & Computer Skills

. Matlab, C, Perl, csh, Emacs, Fortran

. Microsoft: Powerpoint, Project, Word

Awards

. Winning proposal for MIT LL Technical Challenge on Traumatic Brain

Injury, 2011

. Rensselaer Founders Award of Excellence, 2003

. Recipient of Office of Naval Research Graduate Traineeship Award, 2002-

2004

. RPI Dept. of Mathematical Sciences Topper Award, 2000

. Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Scholar, 1998

. Nominated for Sigma Xi, 1998

. Seven Sister Scholar-Athlete Award, 1997

Service

. MIT LL Technical Women's Network Member, volunteer at MIT LL Science

on Saturdays and participant in Pilot Mentoring and Circle Mentoring

programs, 2009-2011

. MIT LL Campus Recruiting for RPI and Mount Holyoke College, 2008-2010

. President and Co-Founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SIAM

Student Chapter, 2004-2005

. RPI Graduate Committee (Representative), 2003-2004

. RPI Department of Mathematics Graduate Council (Representative), 2002-

2003

. Mount Holyoke Upper-class Academic Advisor, 1997-98

Publications

T. Vian, J. Lacirignola, L. Keyes, T. Quatieri, B. Helfer, T. Talavage, T.

Shenk, Optic nerve sheath measurements in high school athletes, (submitted,

J. Neurotrauma)

L. Keyes, N. Pulsone, K. Arsenault, C. Kulig, J. Pietrzyk, D. Padden, W.

Payne, (S) APB-11 Sail Array Part II: Submarine Collision Avoidance

Algorithm (U), MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Technical Report, July 2013

L. Keyes, J. Su, T. Quatieri, B. Evans, J. Lacirignola, T. Vian, W. Greene,

D. Strom, A. Dai, FY12 Line-Supported Bio-Medical Initiative Program: Multi-

modal Early Detection Interactive Classifier (MEDIC) for Mild Traumatic

Brain Injury (mTBI) Triage, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Project Report LSP-41,

Apr 2012

L. Reilly-Raska, J. Su, P. Bisso, J. Braun, B. Evans, W. Greene, J.

Lacirignola, R. Lippmann, T. Quatieri, W. Streilein, T. Vian, FY11 Line-

Supported Bio-Next Program: Multi-modal Early Detection Interactive

Classifier (MEDIC) for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) Triage, MIT

Lincoln Laboratory Project Report PR-LSP-34, Apr 2012

M. Guven, L. Reilly-Raska, L. Zhou, B. Yazici, "Discretization error

analysis and adaptive meshing algorithms for fluorescence diffuse optical

tomography: Part I," IEEE Trans on Med. Imaging, 29(2), 2010

M. Guven, L. Zhou, L. Reilly-Raska, B. Yazici, "Discretization error

analysis and adaptive meshing algorithms for fluorescence diffuse optical

tomography: Part II," IEEE Trans on Med. Imaging, 29(2), 2010

K. McMahon, L. Reilly-Raska, J. Lynch, T. Duda, W. Siegmann, "Horizontal

Lloyd mirror patterns from straight and curved nonlinear internal waves,"

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 131(2), 2012

L. Reilly-Raska, J. Lynch, J. Colosi, and W. Siegmann, "Acoustic mode

coupling effects from propagation through nonlinear internal waves," J.

Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 2535 (2004) (A)

L. Reilly-Raska, J. Lynch, J. Colosi, and W. Siegmann, "Acoustic effects

from the horizontal variability spectrum of nonlinear internal waves," J.

Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 2549 (2004) (A)

L. Reilly-Raska, W. Siegmann, J. Lynch, J. Colosi, and Timothy F. Duda,

"Intensity fluctuations from deterministic and random azimuthal

variability," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 2461 (2003) (A)

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