Michael Buksas

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Michael Buksas	http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbuksas
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544

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Summary
A software engineer with extensive experience developing large-scale high-performance numerical applications for scientific computing. Obsessive about improving software through continuous education, best practices, and new technology. Experienced in numerical algorithms, and mathematical modeling and analysis of physical phenomena. My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbuksas

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Professional Experience

Staff Scientist	April 2001
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory

I've been a part of numerous software engineering projects and algorithm development for science applications. Examples include:

Parallel Monte-Carlo code for radiation transport on massively parallel clusters.

Testing environments for satellite flight software.

For DoE ASCEM project: Build and testing environments; software architecture, engineering standards and code for groundwater contaminant simulation.

Application of the functional programming Haskell to Parallel Monte Carlo simulation.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate	October 1998 - April 2001
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Developed C++ software for Maxwell's equations using mimetic differencing schemes.

Researched application of absorbing boundary layers for mesh truncation using this discretization.

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Research Associate	May 1993 - October 1998
North Carolina State University, CRSC, Raleigh, NC

Did original research and computer simulations for thesis on electromagnetic diagnostics.

Studied the use of electromagnetic waves for medical diagnostics with researchers at Brooks AFB.

Built multi-component numerical simulation code in C++ which communicated with existing FORTRAN software libraries.

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Skills
Highly experienced C++ software engineer Experienced developer in multiple programming languages and cross-language integration. Experienced at development for and deployment on massively parallel clusters. Mathematical modeling and algorithm development for physical problems.

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Education

PhD in Mathematics	September 1993 - October 1998
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 4.0 Grade Point Average

BS in Mathematics	September 1989 - May 1993
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 3.7 Grade Point Average

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Awards and Honors
Two LAAP (Los Alamos Award Program) awards for exceptional job performance. Defense Program Award of Excellence in 2005 for contributions to the Stockpile Stewardship Program.

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Interests
Investigating functional programming languages for parallel and concurrent applications. Developing tools for software developers. Continuous improvement of my software development skills and practices.

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Publications

V.A. Bokil and M.W. Buksas "Comparison of Finite Difference and Mixed Finite Elements for Perfectly Matched Layer Methods". Communications in Computational Physics 2007, vol. 2 no. 4 pp. 806-826

Densmore, J.D.; Urbatsch, T.J.; Evans, T.M.; Buksas, M.W. "A hybrid transport-diffusion method for Monte Carlo radiative-transfer simulations," Source: Journal of Computational Physics; 20 March 2007; vol.222, no.2, p.485-503.

Densmore, J.D.; Evans, T.M.; Buksas, M.W. "Discrete diffusion Monte Carlo for XY adaptive mesh refinement-style meshes" Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; 2006; vol.95, p.541-4.

M. W. Buksas. "Implementing the perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary condition with mimetic differencing schemes". In F. L. Teixeira, editor, Geometric Methods for Computational Electromagnetics, number 32 in Progress in Electromagnetic Research Series. EMW Publishing, Cambridge, Mass., 2001.

H. T. Banks and M. W. Buksas. "A semigroup formulation for electromagnetic waves in dispersive dielectric media". College de France Series on Partial Differential Equations and their Applications, 2000.

H. T. Banks, M. W. Buksas, and T. Lin. "Electromagnetic Material Interrogation Using Conductive Interfaces and Acoustic Wavefronts". Frontiers in Applied Mathematics. SIAM, Philadelphia, PA., 2000.

H. T. Banks, M. W. Buksas, and Y. Wang. "A time domain formulation for identification in electromagnetic dispersion". Journal of Math. Systems, Estimation and Control, 8:257-260, 1998.

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