Bio

Website: http://jjhoward.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/John_J_Howard All content shared on this site is in my personal capacity and does not represent the views of any of my affiliates. I am a computer scientist and biometrics researcher. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Bobby Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. My thesis was ''Biometric Pattern Recognition Models for Identifying Subject Specific Match Probability'', advised by Dr. Delores Etter. My current research interests are in biometrics, computer vision, machine learning, testing human machine interfaces, pattern recognition, and statistics. I enjoy working with the R programming language, specifically the dplyr and ggplot packages. I am a steadfast advocate for the concepts of reproducible research and think workflows that involve LaTeX, knitr, and/or RMarkdown are extremely powerful. However, I also enjoy more generic software engineering like using golang and docker to deploy microservice architectures on platforms like Kubernetes. ------------------------------------------------------------ Languages/Packages/Technologies - C#, C++, C, Java, Python, Golang, MATLAB, R, dplyr, ggplot2, LATEX, knitr, Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Kafka, Kubernetes, Hadoop/MapReduce, Accumulo, NiFi, MySQL, MemSQL, OpenCV, OpenBR, Dlib, Caffe General Technical – Biometrics, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Distributed Computing, Cloud Computing (AWS & GCP), Artificial Intelligence Algorithms, Advanced Mathematics & Statistics, Various Programming Environments (Linux & Windows), Human Subject Testing, Institutional Review Board Policies, Experimental Test Design, Execution, Analysis, and Reporting