Michael C. Grant
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Michael C. Grant, Ph.D. |
Contact
1104 Claire Avenue
Austin, TX 78703-2502
Tel: (650)323-1925
Fax: (650)323-1926
mcg@cvxr.com
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Current projects and affiliations
Primary developer of CVX, a modeling framework for disciplined convex programming
Guest lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Course: Nonlinear Programming (focus: convex optimization)
Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology
Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Advisor: Emmanuel Candès
Project: GPU acceleration of compressed sensing for wireless applications
Chief Engineer, Cardinal Optimization Inc.
Project: Rapid localization of large-scale ad-hoc sensor networks
Former Stanford affiliations
Ph.D. student & Consulting Assistant Professor
Information Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Stephen Boyd
Research Associate
Smart Fields Consortium
Department of Energy Resources Engineering
Advisors: Khalid Aziz,
Louis Durlofsky
Ancient history
1995-1998: Co-founder and first Vice President of Product Development
Numerical Technologies, Inc., acquired by Synopsys in 2003.
1998-2001: Algorithm Design Engineer
Clarity Wireless, Inc., acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. in 1998.
Education
Bachelor of Science,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin, May 1990.
Master of Science,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University, May 1992.
Doctor of Philosophy,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University, January 2005.
Personal
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Happily married to Callie Grant, and proud papa to Anna Grant. |