Jared Willard

Software Engineer

Army Research Laboratory•  December 2018 - Present

-Spearheaded a distributed auctioning system for decentralized execution across heterogeneousdevices -Designed a dockerized system for network emulation across virtual resources accessible through aREST interface with Python -Translate unique Army needs into research objectives and system designs -Investigate new technologies and novel approaches to meet evolving research objectives -Publish and present findings at conferences and to external groups -Mentor summer interns and guide projects with colleagues

Research Scientist

Parsons Corporation•  June 2017 - December 2018

-Initiated a solidity smart-contract library for the Ethereum Virtual Machine to meet distributedtechnology research objectives -Devised a simplified OpenAI gym environment for a high-fidelity physics simulation software -Improved accuracy of Variational Autoencoder on chemical species to predict optimized properties -Developed software to be executed across various computing architectures -Leveraged heterogeneous devices across distributed networks

High Performance Computing Biostatistician

UES•  June 2015 - June 2017

-Formulated parallelized code for super computers -Improved image segmentation of neurites from <15% dendrite coverage to ~95% coverage -Enacted K-Nearest Neighbors algorithms in Python to cluster high dimensional data and detectoutliers -Administered statistical support via statistical consultation and data analysis