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Clay J Stanek is now the Chief Technologist for the Camgian Corporation leading…
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University of Cambridge (UK)
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In Part III of th Mathemattical Tripos, I focused on items related to fluid mechanics: instabilities in fluids, vortex dynamics, stochastic wave propagation under the paraxial assumption, numerical methods, stability and asymptotics, flows though porous media, geophysical fluid mechanics (dominated by balance of pressure gradient with Coriolis force), aerodynamics and boundary layer flows, the 'slow flow equations' or e.g., Navier Stokes Equations at extremely low Reynolds number and the…
In Part III of th Mathemattical Tripos, I focused on items related to fluid mechanics: instabilities in fluids, vortex dynamics, stochastic wave propagation under the paraxial assumption, numerical methods, stability and asymptotics, flows though porous media, geophysical fluid mechanics (dominated by balance of pressure gradient with Coriolis force), aerodynamics and boundary layer flows, the 'slow flow equations' or e.g., Navier Stokes Equations at extremely low Reynolds number and the effects of reversibility in those regimes, nonlinear acoustics. Ph.D concentrated on applications of the paraxial form of the wave equation and various places this knowledge matters from constructing real-time dithering telescopes compensating for atmospheric turbulence, to large-scale tomographic imaging of the ocean.
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Activities and Societies: Darwin College Member
Thesis Title: The Scattering of Waves from Randomly Rough Surfaces
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Activities and Societies: AFRTOC, Member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Member of Chamber Music Society (piano)
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Activities and Societies: Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Chamber Music Society Air Force ROTC Tau Beta Pi
concentrated in aeronautical engineering but was able to get a second bachelor's degree in applied mathematics in my 4 years at MIT, courtesy of the AFROTC program. Once I began studying aerodynamics, I realized I had a deep love and ability in math and wanted to strengthen the skill set for graduate school.
I lived all 4 years at MIT at Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at 99 Bay State Road in Boston just next to Kenmore Square. This was still the most important break of my life and the LCA…concentrated in aeronautical engineering but was able to get a second bachelor's degree in applied mathematics in my 4 years at MIT, courtesy of the AFROTC program. Once I began studying aerodynamics, I realized I had a deep love and ability in math and wanted to strengthen the skill set for graduate school.
I lived all 4 years at MIT at Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at 99 Bay State Road in Boston just next to Kenmore Square. This was still the most important break of my life and the LCA fraternity provided the support I needed to succeed at MIT and also provide me with a few dozen brothers that I still stay in close contact with today. The fraternity system is a critical piece of support for an undergraduate system built with incredible demands and pressures on very young adults. -
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Activities and Societies: Lamba Chi Alpha, Lambda Zeta Chapter Chamber Music Society Air Force ROTC Tau Beta Pi
Focus on Aeronautical engineering more than astronautical engineering and had a flair for fluid mechanics so spent a lot of time doing second BS in Applied Mathematics as good background for fluid mechanics problems.
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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MIT Alumni Mentor
Virtual
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Help Aero/Astro students as well as mathematical students decide about career paths, Grad School and doing PhDs, options for internships and introductions to other professional friends.
Publications
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Online Variational Approximations to non-Exponential Family Change Point Models: With Application to Radar Tracking
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2013
The Bayesian online change point detection (BOCPD) algorithm provides an efficient way to do exact inference when the parameters of an underlying model may suddenly change over time. BOCPD requires computation of the underlying model’s posterior predictives, which can only be computed online in O(1)
time and memory for exponential family models. We develop variational approximations to the posterior on change point times (formulated as run lengths) for efficient inference when the underlying…The Bayesian online change point detection (BOCPD) algorithm provides an efficient way to do exact inference when the parameters of an underlying model may suddenly change over time. BOCPD requires computation of the underlying model’s posterior predictives, which can only be computed online in O(1)
time and memory for exponential family models. We develop variational approximations to the posterior on change point times (formulated as run lengths) for efficient inference when the underlying model is not in the exponential family, and does not have tractable posterior predictive distributions. In doing so, we develop
improvements to online variational inference. We apply our methodology to a tracking problem using radar data with a signal-to-noise feature that is Rice distributed. We also develop a variational method for inferring the parameters of the (non-exponential family) Rice distribution.Other authors
Patents
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Methods and arrangements to enhance correlatio
Issued US 7050652B2
Optical Correlation and Target Tracking
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Methods and arrangements to enhance gridlocking
Issued US 6922493B2
The present invention is in the area of gridlocking or sensor registration. Embodiments encompass systems of process and/or equipment to format tracks from more than one sensor to be compared or correlated by statistical and/or optical correlation techniques to provide coordinate transformations between one or more of the sensors based upon the objects or a subset of the objects tracked by each sensor. Embodiments may take into account determinations or calculations regarding tracks describing…
The present invention is in the area of gridlocking or sensor registration. Embodiments encompass systems of process and/or equipment to format tracks from more than one sensor to be compared or correlated by statistical and/or optical correlation techniques to provide coordinate transformations between one or more of the sensors based upon the objects or a subset of the objects tracked by each sensor. Embodiments may take into account determinations or calculations regarding tracks describing the same object by different sensors and may take into account errors in those determinations by comparing pairs of tracks
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Image compression to enhance optical correlation
Issued US 6909808B2
The present invention is in the area of optical correlation. Embodiments of the invention encompass systems of process and/or equipment to compress images for optical correlation. Further embodiments of the invention may compress images to correlate objects and gridlock sensors with images based upon track data from sensors. In many of the embodiments of the invention, the sensors may comprise radars, global positioning systems, laser target designators, seismic sensors or systems of seismic…
The present invention is in the area of optical correlation. Embodiments of the invention encompass systems of process and/or equipment to compress images for optical correlation. Further embodiments of the invention may compress images to correlate objects and gridlock sensors with images based upon track data from sensors. In many of the embodiments of the invention, the sensors may comprise radars, global positioning systems, laser target designators, seismic sensors or systems of seismic sensors comprising hydrophones and geophones, and other similar systems.
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Gridlocking and correlation methods and arrangements
Issued US 6803997B2
The present invention is in the area of tracking objects with systems such as correlation, gridlocking, optical correlation, and combinations thereof. Embodiments encompass systems of process and/or equipment to correlate objects and gridlock sensors with images based upon track data from sensors. In many of the embodiments the sensors may comprise radars, global positioning systems, laser target designators, seismic sensors or systems of seismic sensors comprising hydrophones and geophones…
The present invention is in the area of tracking objects with systems such as correlation, gridlocking, optical correlation, and combinations thereof. Embodiments encompass systems of process and/or equipment to correlate objects and gridlock sensors with images based upon track data from sensors. In many of the embodiments the sensors may comprise radars, global positioning systems, laser target designators, seismic sensors or systems of seismic sensors comprising hydrophones and geophones, and other similar systems. While embodiments may comprise an optical correlator, many embodiments perform one or more analyzes statistically.
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IEEE
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