Software Design

Douglas Moore, B.S.

**** *. *** **. • Waco, TX **706 • 682-***-**** • **************@******.*** • U.S. Citizen

Education

Ph.D., Physics, Baylor University, August 2009 – May 2014 (Projected)

Dissertation: Investigations of the Free Fermionic Heterotic String Gauge Landscape (In Progress)

Advisor: Gerald Cleaver, Ph.D.

Thesis: 6 (ℤ2 ℤ2 ) Intersecting D-Brane Phenomenology

B.S., Physics, Sam Houston State University, August 2006 – May 2009

Advisor: Joel Walker, Ph.D.

Research Experience

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Baylor University, Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Group, 2009 – Present

Developed software for the systematic construction of weakly coupled free fermionic heterotic string (WCFFHS)

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gauge models, dubbed the Gauge Framework.

The Gauge Framework computes the low energy effective field theory of models of the universe described by

• The Gauge Framework is highly parallelized, but runs roughly 1000 times faster, on a single-core, than previ-

the geometric properties of the spacetime that are maximally supersymmetric.

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ously developed software.

Used the Gauge Framework to perform large scale, statistical, systematic investigations of the WCFFHS

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landscape. Particular focus was identifying and reducing the extreme redundancy in the WCFFHS formalism

Redesigned and expanded the FF Framework, a software project designed to build generic WCFFHS models

up to flat-direction analysis. Resulted in a greater than 3-fold performance improvement on a single core and

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added massive parallelism.

Aided in the development of software, written in Julia to compute flat directions of WCFFHS models.

• Developed software for the systematic construction of 6 (ℤ2 ℤ2 ) intersecting D-brane models in Type-IIA.

Sam Houston State University, String Model Building, 2008 – 2009

• Explicitly constructed configurations conducive to Flipped (5) models.

• Analyzed the phenomenology of related models.

Selected Teaching Experience

Adjunct Faculty, McLennan Community College, June. 2012 – Present

Instructed the General Physics I and II trigonometry based courses which included course lectures as well as

laboratory preparation and instruction. Particular emphasis was given to abstract problem solving, the scientific

method and basic experimental design.

Teaching Assistant, Baylor University, Aug. 2009 – Present

Taught both General Physics and "Sound and Acoustics" for B.A. students, the conceptual "tutorial" laboratory

sections which emphasize student dialog and interaction, Introductory Physics for B.S. students, and performed

departmental tutoring.

Laboratory Instructor, Sam Houston State University, Aug. 2006 – May 2009

Instructed laboratory sections including Introductory Physics I, II, and III for B.S. students and General Physics

for B.A. students as well as Introductory Astronomy and "Stars and Galaxies".

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Technical Skills

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Programming Skills, Languages and Paradigms

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Highly proficient with C, C++, Haskell and Julia (preference toward Haskell)

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Working proficiency with Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Go

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Moderate to significant experience with scripting languages such as Bash, rc, Perl, Python and Ruby

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Working experience with object-oriented, procedural and functional techniques and design principles

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Experience with software testing and test-driven development principles

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Made use of parallel programming techniques including MPI

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Extensive experience with the design and implementation of complex algorithms

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Moderate experience with evolutionary algorithms, machine learning and neural networks

Introductory language and compiler design and implementation

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Systems and Environments

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Extensive experience with Unix/Linux and OS X systems

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Experience with the bash, zsh, fish and rc shells as well as Windows Powershell and CMD.

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Proficient knowledge of the GNU toolchain including make, gcc, and bison

Extensive familiarity with the TEX, L TEX and ConTEXt typesetting systems.

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Analytics and Advanced Mathematics

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Advanced calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, and complex and real analysis

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Data processing, parsing and formatting

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Processed expansive data sets for statistical trends and relationships

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Advanced abstract algebra including group, ring, field, module and representation theory.

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Knowledge of point-set and algebraic topology and knot theory

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Experience with homological algebra and homotopy, homology and cohomology theories

Introductory familiarity with algebraic geometry including algebraic varieties, schemes and sheaves

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Selected Publications and Preprints (5 of 11)

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Douglas Moore, et al. February 2014, (Projected ), Redundancy of the FFHS Gauge Landscape. (In Progress)

Douglas Moore, et al. February 2014, (Projected), The Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to "Targeted"

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Surveys of the String Landscape. (In Progress)

Douglas Moore, V. H. Satheeshkumar, October 2013, The fate of Lorentz frame in the vicinity of black hole

• Douglas Moore, et al. February 2013, Gauge Models in Dimensions. (Mod.Phys.Lett. A28 (201*-*******,

singularity. (Int.J.Mod.Phys.D DOI: 10.1142/S0218271813420261, arXiv: 1305:7221)

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arXiv: 1302.5353)

Douglas Moore, et al., July 2011, Systematic Investigations of the Free Fermionic Heterotic String Gauge

Group Statistics: Layer 1 Results. (Mod.Phys.Lett. A26 (201*-****-****, arXiv: 1107.5758)

Awards and Honors

Honorable Mention, Gravity Research Foundation Awards for Essays on Gravitation, 2013

The Fate of Lorentz Frame in the Vicinity of Black Hole Singularity, arXiv: 1305:7221

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