Peter Brune Email & Phone Number

St. Paul, Mn

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

◦ Developed machine learning forecasting models for predicting ads inventory availability.◦ Built automated campaign planning schemes for driving purchase uplift by ad placement.◦ Utilized large, multi-source datasets to help provide insights into business challenges.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

San Francisco Bay Area

◦ Tech lead covering conversion optimization and autobidding products for display ads.◦ Launched dozens of features in a complex and dynamic product ecosystem.◦ Contributed deeply to the theory and wide deployment of statistical auction models.◦ Developed production systems in C++, Python, R, and other languages.◦ Built, maintained, and extended large-scale analysis and serving infrastructure.◦ Long-term engineering debugging point of contact for sales support.◦ Analysis and debugging using SQL and other tools over messy, world-scale datasets.

Greater Chicago Area

◦ Designed and implemented an extensible framework for solving nonlinear PDEs.◦ Developer on the award-winning open-source PETSc library.◦ Helped to provide user support for a widely-deployed numerical library.◦ Contributed C implementations of parallel graph algorithms and fast solvers.◦ Documented and published research results in journal articles and white papers.◦ Participated in Department of Energy workshops on exascale HPC.

Greater Chicago Area

◦ Researched fast numerical methods for novel models of protein electrostatics.◦ Collaborated on simulation effort for cellular ion channels.◦ Developed and analyzed geometric multigrid methods for adaptive mesh refinement.

◦ Worked on theory and implementation for isoparametric finite elements for bluff-body flow problems.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

◦ Participated in the thematic "Mathematics and Chemistry" year at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

Oslo Area, Norway

◦ Worked on the integration of finite element and parallel mesh technologies

Greater Chicago Area

◦ Implementation and extension of novel techniques for geometric unstructured multigrid methods.

Ph.D, Computer Science

Thesis: Fast Solvers and Biological Problems.

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Penn State Martial Arts GroupMinors in Physics and Mathematics