Brian Matthew Howell
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About

I am an engineer with interests in the field of numerical computing (simulation/optimization/linear algebra) and it applications in physics, finance, ML, and manufacturing. I have extensive experience applying optimization methods to materials development and physics/data-driven modeling for industrial scale applications at Apple, Google X, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

I completed my M.Sc./Ph.D. in the Multi-physics Simulation and Optimization Laboratory at UC Berkeley under the direction of Professor Tarek Zohdi, where I specialized in numerical optimization for materials design. I completed my B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young Unversity where I focused my studies on Control Theory and Optimization.

Here are some snapshots of my public works:

Engineering Bits

Engineering Atoms

Personal

In personal life I have a variety of interests including running very long distances, foreign film, olives, olive oil, discrepancies between Talebian philosophy and Talebian tweets, Schumpeterian and Thielian economics, Jewish atheists, 1980's Japan, 1980's New York, 2000's Silicon Valley, Indian food in England, Indian food in India, desert wealth, and sliding the word 'optimisation' into conversations.

Graduate School Notes

I am currently compiling and transcribing all of my notes from graduate school into a numerical computing handbook. This is far from complete, but I do use this link to refer to equations and derivations.

Various Links