James M. (Mike) Westall

EDUCATION

Davidson College: B.S. Mathematics & Physics

UNC Chapel Hill: M.S. Computer Science, Ph.D. Mathematics

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Previous experience with DoD

Commissioned officer, Signal Corps, USAR (1968 - 1981). Distinguished Graduate (first in class), U.S. Army Signal Officer's Basic Course, Ft. Gordon, GA.

Warner, D. D. and Westall, J. M., ``Communications, command, and control: Studies in communications methodology''. Funded by DOD Test and Evaluation through the C3 Countermeasures Joint Test Force at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque N. M. from June 1983 through November 1985.

Madison, A. W., Peck, J. C., and Westall, J. M., ``An Operating System for Distributed Control of Manufacturing''. Funded by DOD through the Defense Logistics Agency from October 1989 through September 1991.

Recent impactful work in network traffic analysis

Martin, J. and Westall, J., ``Assessing the Impact of BitTorrent on DOCSIS Networks'', Proceedings of IEEE BROADNETS 2007,  Fourth  International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, (Raleigh, NC, Sep. 2007). (Cited in hearings before the FCC).

Martin,  J. and Westall, J. M., Evaluating IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless as a Communications Infrastructure for Public Safety Activities,, National Institute of Justice, October 2006- October 2008.

Westall, J. and Martin, J.,  “Performance Characteristics of an Operational WiMAX Network", IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, to appear. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 10(7): 941-953 (2011).

Other fun things

Geist, R., Corsi, C., Tessendorf, J., and Westall, J., "Lattice-Boltzmann Water Waves," Proc. 6th Int. Symp. on Visual Computing (ISVC10), Las Vegas, Nevada, November, 2010; appears in: G. Bebis et al. (Eds.): ISVC 2010, Part I, LNCS 6453, pp. 74-85, Springer, Heidelberg (2010).

Video here: http://www.cs.clemson.edu/%7Ewestall/texnh/reu/cj.mp4

Geist, R. and Westall, J, NASCAR Race Vehicle Performance Studies, Funded by Toyota Racing Development (2010 - ).