Mike Howard Email & Phone Number

Innovator in diverse technical fields including computational neuroscience, robotics, cyber-security, adversarial planning, and biophysical modeling. Experienced program manager with a track record of success leading large teams on DARPA and IARPA programs. Skilled in program capture, leading or contributing to dozens of large proposals winning over $75M.

Listed skills include Algorithms, Robotics, Simulations, Image Processing, and 12 others.

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  Senior Scientist

  Hrl Laboratories, Llc

  Jun 1986 - Present - Malibu, Ca

  Innovator in diverse technical fields including computational neuroscience, robotics, cyber-security, adversarial planning, and biophysical modeling. Experienced program manager with a record of accomplishment leading large teams on DARPA and IARPA programs. Skilled in program capture, leading or contributing to recent proposals winning over $90M. Proficient in helping university researchers to adapt to fast-paced government programs with challenging (and sometimes frustrating) requirements. Hands-on developer with experience architecting simulations in python, C++, and matlab.Key hands-on technical roles as lead developer, including the following: A detailed bidirectional model of the human episodic memory system in matlab, simulating the NREM sleep consolidation of temporally extended memories, including saliency, distraction effects, speedup of sleep replays during SWO upstates, etc.. Developed python and C++ code for musculoskeletal modeling in 2017 applied to predicting fatigue and reducing injury in factory workers. Designed a predictive controller in 2018 for autonomous driving in C++ loosely based on some episodic memory ideas. PI on projects in automated planning, reasoning and decision support; e.g., developed the USMC PLT and CO commander models and participated in the STOW97 24-hour simulated battle for the Darpa Command Forces program ACTD.Other technical work on projects on cooperative control of teams of robots leading to several highly cited, seminal papers in stigmergic control of robots. Wrote code for the Darpa Autonomous Land Vehicle. Wrote algorithms to give more realistic behaviors to simulated entities in Simnet. Early work in artificial reality and teleconferencing.