Kenneth Jarrod Millman

Career History

2004- Director of Computing, Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

Responsible for the strategy, planning, acquisition, implementation, and maintenance of the technical architecture, design, security, and support.

2000-2004 System Administrator, Brain Imaging Center, UC Berkeley

Designed, implemented, and managed the network and computational infrastructure for the center and associated labs.

1998-2000 System Administrator, Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis

Created and administered a new lab’s computer equipment.

Education

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, BA cum laude, May 1998. Computer Science and Mathematics (Cognitive Studies minor)
• Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• K. J. Millman, T. Vaught, “The State of SciPy,” Proceedings of the 7th Python in Science conference, G. Varoquaux, T. Vaught, K. J. Millman (Eds.), pp. 5-10, August, 2008.
• J. L. Teeters, K. D. Harris, K. J. Millman, B. A. Olshausen, F. T. Sommer. “Data Sharing for Computational Neuroscience,” Neuroinformatics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 47-55, March, 2008.
• K. Jarrod Millman, M. Brett, “Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Python,” Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 52-55, May/June, 2007.
• K. J. Millman, M. D’Esposito, “Data and Analysis Management for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Advanced Database Conference, M. Amin et al., eds., US Education Service, June 2006, pp. 24–28.
• B. A. Olshausen, K. J. Millman, “Learning sparse overcomplete image representations,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 4119, p. 445-452, Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VIII, Akram Aldroubi, Andrew F. Laine, Michael A. Unser, eds., December 2000.
• B. A. Olshausen, K. J. Millman, “Learning sparse codes with a mixture-of-Gaussians prior,” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 12, S.A. Solla, T.K. Leen, K.R. Muller, eds., MIT Press, 2000, pp. 841-847.

Reports

• Sommer F, Olshausen BA, Millman KJ. “Data Sharing for Computational Neuroscience Central Services.” National Science Foundation’s Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Workshop. University of Maryland University College, June 6-7, 2007.
• Albarran C, Chiron J, Denton K, Graber S, Ibrahim S, Ko L, Millman KJ, Rieger D. “New Employee Start-up Package.” UC Berkeley Campus Report, 2005.

Talks

• Millman KJ. “Foundation for mathematical and scientific computing.” 3rd annual European Python in Science conference, 2010.
• Millman KJ. “Foundation for mathematical and scientific computing.” 9th annual Python in Science conference, 2010.
• Millman KJ. “Foundation for mathematical and scientific computing.” Open Research Computing in Python, 2010.
• Millman KJ. “The SciPy web and documentation tools.” SciPy India, 2009.
• Millman KJ. “Codes, keys, and trap doors: Cryptography and the practice of hiding information.” Secure IT Conference for Information Technology and Network Security, 2008.
• Millman KJ. “Data Processing Working Group and Data Sharing Working Group.” University of California Brain Imaging Institute Planning Meeting, Office of the President, October 30, 2007.
• Millman KJ. “Ensuring Security Policy Compliance by Automating System Configuration.” 2007 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference, April 12, 2007.
• Millman KJ. “Mandatory Access Control and the Principle of Least Privilege.” Secure IT Conference for Information Technology and Network Security, March 28, 2007.
• Millman KJ. “Automating security policy implementation.” Secure IT Conference for Information Technology and Network Security, 2006.
• Millman KJ. “fMRI Study Management/Analysis at UC Berkeley.” National fMRI Data Center Meeting, January 10, 2006.
• Millman KJ. “Running a secure Fedora Linux machine.” UC Davis IT Security Symposium, June 22 and 24, 2005.
• Millman KJ. “High speed networking for functional MRI.” Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California Conference, 2002.
• Millman KJ. “A functional MRI LAN.” Northern California Optical Networking Workshop, 2002.
• Millman KJ. “A neural network strategy for discovering the structure of natural scenes.” National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, 1998.

Abstracts

• Burns CD, Ghosh SS, Clark D, Gorgolewski K, Halchenko Y, Madison C, Millman KJ, and Tungaraza RF. “Nipype: Opensource platform for unified and replicable interaction with existing neuroimaging tools.” Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2010.
• Brett M, Taylor J, Burns C, Millman KJ, Perez F, Roche A, Thirion B, D’Esposito M. “NIPY: an open library and development framework for FMRI data analysis.” Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2009.
• Trumpis M, Sheltraw D, Millman KJ, D’Esposito MT. “Python Imaging Tools for Reconstructing Magnetic Resonance Images.” Python for Scientific Computing Conference, 2006.
• Brett M, Taylor JE, Millman KJ. “NIPY: Neuroimaging software in Python.” Python for Scientific Computing Conference, 2005.
• Taylor JE, Worsley K, Brett M, Cointepas Y, Hunter J, Millman KJ, Poline J-B, Perez F. “BrainPy: an open source environment for the analysis and visualization of human brain data.” Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2005.
• Field DJ, Millman, KJ. “Learning wavelet-like receptive fields from natural scenes using a biologically plausible de-correlation network.” Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1998.
• Millman KJ, Szewczak JM. “Nonlinear methods for the analysis of ventilatory control.” The Physiologist, 37(5): A-64., 1994.

Professional Service

• Review Editor, Frontiers in Neuroscience Methods
• Review Editor, Open Research Computation
• SciPy Steering Committee (2008-present)
• Chair, Annual Python in Science Conference (2008-present)
• Chair, SciPy India Conference (2009-present)
• Program Committee Member, EuroSciPy 2010
• Program Committee Member, Educause Security Professionals Conference 2010
• Organizer, Open Research Computing in Python 2010
• Release Manager, Scientific Tools for Python (2007-2009)
• Program Committee Member, Secure IT Conference (2007-2009)
• Mentor, Google’s Summer of Code (2007-2009)

University Service

• Member, UC Berkeley’s Information Technology Architecture Committee (2007-present)
• Member, UC Berkeley’s Campus Information Security and Privacy Committee (2006-present)
• Member, UC Berkeley’s Calnet Technical Team (2005-2009)