Christian Howard
Computer Science Graduate Research Assistant
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Howard is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant in Computer Science at UIUC with 11 years of engineering experience bridging computational mathematics and high-performance software. He specializes in optimization, computational geometry/topology, randomized and approximation algorithms, and AI, and has applied those skills to guidance, navigation, and control systems at Raytheon as well as research and production internships at Google. His background spans web, desktop, mobile, embedded robotics/missile platforms, and increasingly hybrid parallel HPC, with a focus on mathematical and statistical algorithm development. Notably, he combines deep theoretical CS interests with hands-on systems implementation, evidenced by repeated Google PhD engineering roles and long-term research/teaching positions at UIUC.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Prairie Ridge High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French, Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (30)
integral9
solve8
monte-carlo7
systems-biology6
differential-equations6
simulation-framework6
sampling6
simulation6
temporal6
julia5
time-integration5
sbml5
simulations5
cosmology5
stochastic-processes4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
choward1491/TAM574_STDG
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
choward1491/SwarmAlgorithms
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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