Micah Elliot Halter

Contact Details

Micah Elliot Halter

Atlanta, GA

+1 704 490 9840

micah@mehalter.com

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Balena

Backend Engineer • Feb 2021 - Present

• Develop backend code for the Balena ecosystem
• More details to come…

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Research Scientist • Jun 2019 - Feb 2021

• Lead contributor to research projects sponsored by large entities DARPA, NIH, DOD, and ONR
• Wrote and published peer reviewed conference and journal papers to communicate research findings to the greater research community
• Contributed and participated in white paper and proposal writing to bring in more funding for new and on-going projects
• Delivered applied research projects to sponsors such as source code, web applications, and technical reports

Undergraduate Research Assistant • Jan 2016 - May 2019

• Lead contributor to research projects sponsored by large entities NIH and ONR
• Wrote and published a peer reviewed journal paper to communicate research findings to the greater research community
• Delivered applied research projects to sponsors such as source code, web applications, and technical reports
• Predicting crimes in Portland, OR using temporal and geographic features derived from crime statistics and GIS data

The Boeing Company

Software Development Intern • May 2016 - Aug 2017

• Developed a security auditing tool suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to maintain hardened security on classified servers
• Developed a web application in C#, HTML, and JavaScript to view and analyze network traffic
• Developed several system administration scripts as needed by team members to complete tasks such as emailing system logs and automatic server backups
• Organized and led a software development team to create a minimum viable product of a Kanban board web application
• Pitched the Kanban board prototype to management to form a team to continue development of the application after I left
• Documented and executed an upgrade plan for the company’s identity management servers
• Developed an Outlook-integrated conference room mapping tool in C#

AlgebraicJulia

• A GitHub Organization for a collection of Julia packages for defining modeling frameworks as generalized algebraic theories
• Includes Julia packages such as Catlab.jl, AlgebraicPetri.jl, and AlgebraicRelations.jl
• A category theory approach to defining metamodeling tasks for representing, composing, selecting, and tuning scientific models
• Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Petri.jl

• A stochastic petri net modeling framework for the Julia programming language
• Allow petri nets to be compiled to Gillespie and differential equation based simulations

VirtualEnv.jl

• Self-contained virtual environments for the Julia programming language
• A reimplementation of venv from Python in Julia

Corsair Database

• Research funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• Developed a web application for viewing and analyzing sonar SAS data using Go, Python, and PostgresDB deployed with Docker and Drone.io
• Engineered a database for managing scientific experiments to utilize the speed and efficiency of using a rigid relational database, while being flexible enough to handle the changing data requirements of scientific experimentation

Funding

Dates	Role	Sponsor	Title	Amount
2020 - 2021	Task Lead	DARPA	Computable Models - Generalized Algebraic Theories for Enhancing Multiphysics	≈$1.35M
2018 - 2021	Task Lead	DARPA	Artifical Intelligence Exploration - Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction	≈$1M
2019 - 2021	Performer	Office of Naval Research	Extracting, Explaining, and Estimating Information in Sonar Data	≈$400K
2019 - 2021	Performer	Office of Naval Research	MCM Situational Awarness	≈$375K
2018 - 2019	Performer	Air Force	Network Risk Indication	≈$135K
2016 - 2019	Performer	Office of Naval Research	Performance Estimation of Underwater MCM Operations	≈$990K
2015 - 2019	Performer	Office of Naval Research	Automation for UxV-based Mine Countermeasures	$540K

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications

• Compositional Scientific Computing with Catlab and SemanticModels, Micah Halter, Evan Patterson, Andrew Baas, James Fairbanks, Applied Category Theory, 2020
  PDF Video
• SemanticModels.jl: A Julia Package for Scientific Model Augmentation, Micah Halter, Sreenath Raparti, Kun Cao, Christine Herlihy, James Fairbanks, JuliaCon, 2019
  PDF Slides Video
• A Compositional Framework for Scientific Model Augmentation, Micah Halter, Christine Herlihy, James Fairbanks, Applied Category Theory, 2019
  PDF Slides

Under Review Journal Publications

• Accelerating Automatic Target Recognition Performance Estimation with a Relational Database for Synthetic Aperture Sonar, James Fairbanks*, Micah Halter*, Trevor Goodyear, Matthew Jackson, Brian O’Donnell, John Wilcher, Navy Journal of Underwater Research, 2018
  

Invited Talks

• Compositional Epidemiological Modeling Using Structured Cospans, Micah Halter and Evan Patterson, University of California Riverside Categories Seminar, Nov 2020
  Slides Video

Posters

• SemanticModels.jl: A Framework for Automatic Composition of Scientific Models Across Domains, Micah Halter, Kun Cao, James Fairbanks, SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Feb 2020
  PDF
• Scientific Knowledge Extraction, Augmentation & Analysis, Micah Halter, James Fairbanks, Eric Davis, Clayton Morrison, Ryan Wright, DARPA Demo Day, Sep 2019
  

Core Maintainer

• AlgebraicJulia
• Petri.jl
• TikzCDs.jl
• VirtualEnv.jl
• XDGSpec.jl

Contributor

• Neovim
• JuliaTeX
• sir-julia
• qutebrowser
• vim-pandoc
• python-keyboard
• Comonicon.jl
• voidrice

Arch User Repository Package Maintainer

• Ruby on Rails
• OpenSCAP
• HTTP Prompt
• Translate Shell
• Antigen
• Ueberzug
• write-good
• MyEtherWallet

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science in Computer Science • Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

• Specialization in Machine Learning

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science • Aug 2015 - May 2019

• Concentration in system architecture and theory
• Dean’s List Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Spring 2019

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science • Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

• Studied abroad