Matthew J Bauman

Education

2018

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)

• Dissertation: A ventral root interface for neuroprosthetic control of locomotion

• Advisor: Douglas Weber, Rehabilitation and Neural Engineering Laboratory

2006

B.A., Goshen College (Indiana)

• Majors: Math, Physics

• Minor: Spanish

Work

2018–present

JuliaHub (formerly Julia Computing)
Director of Sales Engineering, 2022–present
Director of Applications Engineering, 2020–2022
Senior Research Scientist, 2018–2020

• Redesigned and implemented broadcasting in Julia

• Authored blogs and technical documentation and presented live webinars

• Developed and taught multiple on-line and in-person courses

• Built and presented data science and machine learning demos

• Worked with customers to design and deploy cloud-based APIs

• Deployed massively parallel workloads with over 1000 cores

• Since 2022, hired and managed a team of four sales engineers

2016–2017

University of Chicago Center for Data Science & Public Policy
Research Scientist, 2016–2017
Data Science for Social Good Fellow, 2016 (Summer)

• Built a dedicated tool to facilitate matching of personal information across databases

• Developed an end-to-end machine learning pipeline for an incarceration early intervention system

• Deployed an API and website for navigating workforce data

2010–2016

University of Pittsburgh Department of Bioengineering
Graduate Student Researcher, 2010–2016
Teaching Assistant, 2012–2013

• Designed, supervised, and performed in-vivo experiments for dissertation

• Applied machine learning and statistical techniques to rigorously correlate neural activity with muscle and kinematic activity

• Conducted complicated experiments combining motion capture and neural recordings

• CNC-machined and 3d-printed bespoke parts as required

• Printed and soldered custom circuit boards to facilitate recordings

• Organized and analyzed over two terabytes of data with MATLAB and Julia

2015 (Fall)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Julia Lab
Visiting Ph.D. Student

• Defined the roadmap to improve Julia's built-in arrays and began the work

2006–2010

Northwestern University Miller Limb Lab
Lab Technician

• Provided general neurophysiology research support, from hardware to software to biological surgery

• Designed, engineered, and constructed a complete experimental apparatus with joystick and microcontroller

• Developed and deployed a graphical application to control experiments on a real-time operating system

Skills and other activities

• Languages: Julia, Python, C, MATLAB, Shell, and Javascript (and HTML/CSS)

• Tools: Git, PostgreSQL, HTTP(s) APIs, SSH, Docker, AWS (EC2, EFS, S3 primarily)

• Techniques: Multi-threaded, multi-machine, and GPU-based compute; neural networks and machine learning pipelines; imputation and ETL.

• Core contributor to the Julia programming language, 2015–present

• Moderator and administrator of the Julia community discourse board (discourse.julialang.org), 2016–present

• Former member of Students for Urban Data Science (Carnegie Mellon University), 2015–2016

Publications

• Bauman, Matthew J (2019). A ventral root interface for neuroprosthetic control of locomotion. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 131 pages.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2018). Improving deduplication of identities.
• Debnath, Shubham; Bauman, Matthew J; Fisher, Lee E; Weber, Douglas J; Gaunt, Robert A (2014). Microelectrode array recordings from the ventral roots in chronically implanted cats. Frontiers in Neurology, 5(104), 1-9. doi:10.3389/fneur.2014.00104
• Bruns, Tim M; Wagenaar, Joost B; Bauman, Matthew J; Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2013). Real-time control of hind limb functional electrical stimulation using feedback from dorsal root ganglia recordings. Journal of Neural Engineering, 10(2), 026020. doi:10.1088/1741-2560/10/2/026020
• Ethier, Christian; Oby, Emily R; Bauman, Matthew J; Miller, Lee E (2012). Restoration of grasp following paralysis through brain-controlled stimulation of muscles. Nature, 485(7398), 368-371. doi:10.1038/nature10987
• Ackermann Jr, D Michael; Ethier, Christian; Foldes, Emily L; Oby, Emily R; Tyler, Dustin; Bauman, Matthew J; Bhadra, Niloy; Miller, Lee; Kilgore, Kevin L (2011). Electrical conduction block in large nerves: High‐frequency current delivery in the nonhuman primate. Muscle & Nerve, 43(6), 897-899. doi:10.1002/mus.22037
• Slutzky, Marc W; Jordan, Luke R; Bauman, Matthew J; Miller, Lee E (2010). A new rodent behavioral paradigm for studying forelimb movement. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 192(2), 228-232. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.07.040
• Oby, Emily R; Ethier, Christian; Bauman, Matthew J; Perreault, Eric J; Ko, Jason H; Miller, Lee E (2010). Prediction of Muscle Activity from Cortical Signals to Restore Hand Grasp in Subjects with Spinal Cord Injury. Chapter in Statistical Signal Processing for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, edited by O'Weiss, KG, 369-406. doi:0.1016/B978-0-12-375027-3.00011-9

Presentations

• Bauman, Matthew J (2024). Introduction to Julia Workshop. JuliaCon 2024, Eindhoven, NL.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2021). Pluto on JuliaHub. PlutoCon 2021, Online.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2020). The impact of differentiable programming: how ∂P is enabling new science in Julia. SPLASH 2020, Chicago, IL Everywhere online.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2020). Learn How to Seamlessly Use Julia for Your Machine Learning Tasks. ODSC Europe, Virtual Conference.
• Bauman, Matthew J; Sengupta, Avik (2019). Parallel Computing Workshop. JuliaCon 2019, Baltimore, MD.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2019). Machine Learning Workshop. JuliaCon 2019, Baltimore, MD.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2018). Advocating for public policy change with Julia. JuliaCon 2018, London.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2018). An introduction to high performance custom arrays. JuliaCon 2018, London.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2016). DIY Speed Monitoring: A Hacknight with Matt Bauman. Students Using Data For Social Good, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Bauman, Matthew J (2013). Multi-Electrode Recordings 101. Plexon Neurophysiology Workshop, Dallas, TX.

Conference Proceedings and Posters

• Bauman, Matthew J; Boxer, Kate S; Lin, Tzu-Yun; Salomon, Erika; Naveed, Hareem; Haynes, Lauren; Walsh, Joe; Helsby, Jen; Yoder, Steve; Sullivan, Robert (2018). Reducing Incarceration through Prioritized Interventions. Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 1(6), 8. doi:10.1145/3209811.3209869
• Bauman, Matthew J; Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2014). Estimation of muscle activity from chronic single unit ventral root recordings. Society for Neuroscience 44th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. ¹
• Bauman, Matthew J; Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2014). Estimation of Muscle Activity from Chronic Single Unit Ventral Root Recordings. Neural Interfaces Conference, Dallas, TX.
• Debnath, Shubham; Bauman, Matthew J; Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2013). Impedance and signal quality measurements for microelectrode arrays implanted chronically in feline spinal nerves. Society for Neuroscience 43rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Bauman, Matthew J; Debnath, S., Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2013). Chronic ventral root recordings as a source for neuroprosthetic control. Society for Neuroscience 43rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. ²
• Weber, Douglas J; Bauman, Matthew J; Fisher, Lee; Ayers, Christopher; Debnath, Shubham; Parker, Rebecca; Gaunt, Robert (2013). Spinal nerve interfaces for bidirectional communication with prosthetic limbs. 生体医工学 2013 IEEE EMBC, 51(Supplement), M–75. doi:10.11239/jsmbe.51.M-75
• Bauman, Matthew J; Bruns, Tim M; Wagenaar, Joost B; Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2011). Stable control of functional electrical stimulation with online feedback from dorsal root ganglion recordings. Society for Neuroscience 41st Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. ³
• Bauman, Matthew J; Bruns, Tim M; Wagenaar, Joost B; Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2011). Online feedback control of functional electrical stimulation using dorsal root ganglia recordings. 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, MA.
• Bauman, Matthew J; Bruns, Tim M; Wagenaar, Joost B; Gaunt, Robert A; Weber, Douglas J (2011). Online feedback control of functional electrical stimulation using dorsal root ganglia recordings. 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 7246-7249. doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091831
• Ethier, Christian; Oby, Emily R; Bauman, Matthew J; Miller, Lee E (2009). Real-time control of a paralyzed limb: Restoration of grasp through cortically controlled FES. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
• London, Brian M; Bauman, Matthew J; Miller, Lee E (2009). Towards a bidirectional brain-machine interface: Coding properties of proprioceptive cortex. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Awards and accolades

• 2013 TA of the year, Pittsburgh Engineering Graduate Student Organization, Bioengineering Department.

• ¹ 2015 RIDay best pre-doctoral poster

• ² 2014 BioE Graduate Recruitment Weekend Poster Session 1st place

• ³ 2012 BioE Graduate Recruitment Weekend Poster Session 1st place