Jeffrey D. Blanchard, Short CV

Education

• Ph.D., Mathematics, Washington Univeristy in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 2007
  Advisors: Guido Weiss and Ed Wilson
  
• A.M., Mathematics, Washington Univeristy in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 2004
• B.A., Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas, 1998

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Grinnell College, 2009 -
• NSF International Research Fellow, School of Mathematics and School of Electronics and Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Jan. - Dec. 2010
• VIGRE Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 2007-2009

Courses Taught

• Grinnell College: Calculus I, Calculus II, Differential Equations, Foundations of Analysis, Complex Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Topics in Applied Mathematics
• University of Utah: Calculus I, Calculus II, Introduction to Numerical Analysis, Wavelet Analysis and Applications
• Washington University in St. Louis: Introduction to Statistics, Business Calculus II (TA), Individual/Team Military Tactics, Self/Team Development

Undergraduate Research Projects

• Selecting Multiple Order Statistics with a Graphics Processing Unit, 2012
• Greedy Algorithms for Joint Sparisty, 2012
• K-Selection with Graphics Processing Units, 2011
• Composite Dilation Wavelets and Crystallographic Groups, 2009

Additional Experience

• Department of Homeland Security Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Summer 2004
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Military Science, Washington University, 2004-2007
• Captain, United States Army Field Artillery, 1998-2007

Selected Awards

• Harris Faculty Fellowship, 2013-2014
• NSF Grant DMS 1112612, 2011-2014
• NSF International Research Fellowship, 2010
• Outstanding Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 2008-2009
• MAA Project NExT Fellow, 2008-2009
• Department of Homeland Security Fellowship, 2003-2006

Publications

• GPU Accelerate Greedy Algorithms for Compressed Sensing (with Jared Tanner), Mathematical Programming Computation, 5(3): 267-304, 2013
• Toward Deterministic Compressed Sensing, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(4), Early Edition, January 2013
• Fast K-selection Algorithms for Graphics Processing Units (with Tolu Alabi, Bradley Gordon, and Russel Steinbach), ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, 17(2), Article 4.2, Pages 4.2:1-4.2:29, 2012
• Recovery Guarantees for Rank Aware Pursuits (with Mike E. Davies), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 19(7), 427-430, July 2012
• Large-Scale Iterative Hard Thresholding on a Graphical Processing Unit (with Jared Tanner), Proc. Int. Conf. on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, September 2010
• Pushing the RIP Phase Transition in Compressed Sensing (with Andrew Thompson), Proc. of European Signal Processing Conference, August 2010
• Crystallographic Haar-type Composite Dilation Wavelets (with Kyle R. Steffen), in Wavelets and Multi-Scale Analysis: from theory to application, 2011
• Matricial Filters and Crystallographic Composite Dilation Wavelets (with Ilya A. Krishtal), Mathematics of Computation, 81, 905-922, 2012
• Phase Transitions for Greedy Sparse Approximation Algorithms (with Coralia Cartis, Jared Tanner, and Andrew Thompson), Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 30(2), 188-203, 2011
• On Support Sizes of Restricted Isometry Constants, (with Andrew Thompson), Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 29(3), 382-390, 2010
• Compressed Sensing: How Sharp is the Restricted Isometry Property?, (with Coralia Cartis and Jared Tanner), SIAM Review, 51(3), 105-125, 2011
• Phase Transitions for Restricted Isometry Properties, (with Coralia Cartis and Jared Tanner), Proceedings of Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations, April 2009
• Decay Properties of Restricted Isometry Constants, (with Coralia Cartis and Jared Tanner), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 16(7), 572-575, 2009
• Minimally Supported Frequency Composite Dilation Parseval Frame Wavelets, Journal of Geometric Analysis, 19(1), 19-35, 2009
• Minimally Supported Frequency Composite Dilation Wavelets, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, 15(6), 796-815, 2009

Software

• GGMS: Grinnell GPU Multi-Selection (with Erik Opavsky and Emircan Uysaler), 2013
• GAGA: GPU Accelerated Greedy Algorithms for Compressed Sensing (with Jared Tanner), 2013
• GGKS: Grinnell GPU K-Selection (with Tolu Alabi, Bradley Gordon, and Russel Steinbach), 2011