Müller, Markus

Member Profile

DR. MARKUS MÜLLER
School of Integrative Plant Science
Cornell University
110 Arboretum Rd
Ithaca, NY 14853
E-mail: mm2796@cornell.edu

PROFILE
Computational scientist with 20 years experience of all aspects of numerical simulation of partial and ordinary differential equations, including:
● Machine learning,
● Theoretical and applied numerics,
● Code implementation,
● Parallelisation,
● Automated software testing and continuous integration
● Linux site administration

EDUCATION
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
● Ph.D. in geophysics, February 2009
Dissertation: ”Towards a robust TERRA, Numerical improvements of the TERRA Code”
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Uwe Walzer
● State exam in mathematics and physics, September 2001
Thesis: ”Quantum statistics of the radiation field at beam splitters”
The state exam is technically comparable to a diploma or M.Sc. and obligatory for teaching at A-level standard at German schools

SKILLS
Experience
● Applied mathematics
◦ Theory and application of finite elements
◦ Autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems and control theory
◦ Implementation of numerical and computer aided symbolic algebra algorithms CAS
◦ Graph theory (Certificate)
● Machine Learning
◦ Online course at Stanford (Certificate)
neural networks, support vector machines, clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems, deep learning
● Object oriented and functional programming
◦ Python (sympy, numpy, scipy, dask.. ), R, Mupad, Matlab, Idl, GNUOctave
◦ Fortran (77/90/2003), C++, MPI,OpenMP
◦ Haskell (Certificate)
◦ Java, JavaScript, nix, ruby, bash ,...
● Agile software development
◦ Extreme programming (group programming techniqes, test driven development TDD )
● Linux site administration
◦ debian, gentoo and NixOS linux distributions