Damian Eads

Current

• Graduate Student Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Staff Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Past

• Programmer at One Web Source
• System Support Intern at Bristol Technology

Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Ridgefield High School

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Defense & Space

Websites

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Damian Eads’s Summary

Damian Eads is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Under the direction of Dr. David Helmbold at UCSC and Dr. James Theiler at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), he studies the application of machine learning algorithms to remote sensing and time series problems. He also collaborates with Dr. Ethan Miller at the Storage System Research Center of the University of California, Santa Cruz on the use of machine learning for storage and operating system problems. Since 2001, Mr. Eads has been employed with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, most recently as a Staff Research Assistant, working for the Intelligent Searching of Images and Signals (ISIS) team. In his spare time, he maintains a large number of open source software packages.

Damian Eads’s Specialties:

machine learning, time series analysis, object detection, open source scientific software

Damian Eads’s Experience

• Graduate Student Researcher

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  2005 — Present (3 years)

• Staff Research Assistant

  Los Alamos National Laboratory

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 2001 — Present (7 years 4 months)

  See my resume here: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~eads/cv.shtml for a comprehensive overview of my work with this company.

• Programmer

  One Web Source

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)

• System Support Intern

  Bristol Technology

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1998 — January 1999 (5 months)

  Assisted employees with their computer and network problems. Fixed computers and set-up new machines. Ran back-ups. Implemented ticket request system for employees to use to track their support inquiries.

Damian Eads’s Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Ph.D., Computer Science, 2005 — 2010 (expected)

  Machine learning applied to remote sensing and time series problems, statistics, computer vision, operating systems.

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  B.Sc., Computer Science, Minors: Applied Mathematics, Psychology, 1999 — 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Math Club

• Ridgefield High School

  High School Diploma, High School Diploma, 1995 — 1999

Additional Information

Damian Eads’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Website

Damian Eads’s Interests:

machine learning, time series analysis, object detection, open source scientific software, foreign affairs, government studies, combinatorics, human rights, diversity

Damian Eads’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM, SPIE, HRC

•    Python Community

Damian Eads’s Honors:

* Golden Key International Honour Society
* Dean's List (for Eight Quarters), RIT
* Member of Team Awarded R&D Magazine's R&D 100 Award
* Member of Team Awarded LANL's Distinguished Performance Award
* LANL Nonproliferation and International Security Scholarship (09/2003)
* LANL SPOT Award (08/2004)
* LANL LAAP Award (09/2005)
* LANL Distinguished Copyright of the Year Award for 2005 (03/2006)
* LANL Five Years of Service Award (06/2006)
* LANL LAAP Award (09/2006)
* LANL Distinguished Copyright of the Year Award for 2006 (04/2007)
* LANL Copyright Honorable Mention, Sparse Image Format (05/2008)
* LANL SPOT Award (06/2008)

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