Paul marty kump



Resume/CV





Education



  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science --- Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL), 2013 - 2016
  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering --- University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), 2010 - 2012
  • M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering --- University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), 2006 - 2008
  • B.S.E, Electrical and Computer Engineering --- University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), 2003 - 2006


Teaching Experience



Associate Professor, Curriculum Leader --- SUNY Maritime College, School of Engineering (Bronx, NY), 2012 - present

  • Teach undergraduate courses in machine learning, computer programming, signals and systems, analog and digital electronics, electromagnetic fields, and circuit analysis.
  • As Electrical Engineering Curriculum Leader (2019 - present), serve as the contact and coordinator for ABET accreditation reviews. Conduct internal program reviews, communicate with internal and external constituencies, and propose curricular and program modifications in conjunction with program faculty.
  • Serve at the school's expert and main contact for all things distance-learning and designed the school's first three fully online certified courses. Designed about 25% of all of the college's certified online courses.
  • Much experience in curriculum and course design. Designed the EE school curricula as they are presently. Designed signals and systems, computer programming, and machine learning courses.
  • Well versed in various teaching styles like flipped classroom, Socratic method, online, and chalk-and-talk.
  • Earned tenure (2018), Open SUNY recognition for excellence in online teaching (2016), certificate in online teaching (2015).
  • Advisor of about 20 undergraduate students.

Adjunct Professor of Physics --- East-West College (Chicago, IL), 2014 - 2015



tutoring experience



Freelance STEM Tutor (Iowa City, IA Chicago, IL Astoria, NY), 2004 - present

  • Individual and group STEM tutor experience with learners in grade school, high school, and college.
  • Familiarity with New York regents exams, GRE, MCAT, and current curriculum standards.
  • Familiarity with NYC public school system. Has a child attending PS-122 in Astoria, Queens.

Registered Math and Physics Tutor --- University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), 2004 - 2012

  • ​Tutored University of Iowa students in pre-calculus, calculus, calculus-based and non-calculus-based physics, and statistics.


research experience



Senior Research Associate --- Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL), 2013 - 2016

  • Co-authored successful grant proposal for $800k awarded by The National Institute of Justice
  • Using differencing techniques (e.g., difference location quotients and difference-in-differences) analyzed the spatio and temporal effect CCTV cameras have on crime in Chicago. Results were incorporated into a larger machine-learning algorithm that determined the optimal locations of CCTV camera placement.
  • Constructed a "criminal social network" and examined the effects a criminal's position in the network has on his criminal actions. These effects were quantified in both time and geodesic network distance and were incorporated as features into machine-learning algorithms to create the Chicago Police Department's Strategic Subjects List (SSL) --- a ranked list of Chicago's 400 criminals most likely to be parties to violence.

Graduate Research Assistant --- University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), 2010 - 2012

  • ​Developed and applied feature-selection algorithms, particularly the RIVAL algorithm --- an algorithm that iteratively improves upon the estimates of a popular non-iterative selection algorithm --- to the detection of special nuclear materials. Development included real and synthesized data, simulations, and proving theoretical and mathematical algorithm properties.


ENgineering industry experience



Instrumentation and Controls Engineer --- Sargent and Lundy, LLC (Chicago, IL), 2008 - 2010 ​



Selected Publications and Items In the news



  • Ferguson, A.A., "The Police Are Using Computer Algorithms to Tell If You're a Threat", Time, Oct., 3, 2017.​​
  • Asher, J., Arthur, R., "Inside the Algorithm, That Tries to Predict Gun Violence In Chicago", The New York Times, Jun. 13, 2017.
  • Dumke, M., Main, F., "A Look Inside the Watch List Chicago Police Fought to Keep Secret", Chicago Sun Times, May, 18, 2017.
  • Kump, P., Alonso, D.H., Yang, Y., Candella, J., Lewin, J., Wernick, M.N. (2016) "Measurement of Repeate Effects in Chicago's Criminal Social Network", Applied Computing and Informatics, 10.1016/j.aci.2016.01.002.
  • Bai, E., Li, K., Kump, P. (2014, June). "Variable Selection Via RIVAL". Paper presented at MED Control Conference, Palermo, Italy.
  • Kump, P., Bai, E., Chan, K., Eichinger, W. (2013) "A Robust Method For Detecting Nuclear Materials When the Underlying Model Is Inexact", Radiation Measurements, 59, pp. 144-150.
  • Kump, P., Bai, E., Chan, K., Eichinger, B. (2013) "Detection of Shielded Radionuclides from Weak and Poorly Resolved Spectra Using Group Positive RIVAL", Radiation Measurements, 48, pp. 18-28.
  • Kump, P., Bai, E., Chan, K., Eichinger, B., and Li, K. (2012) "Variable Selection via RIVAL (Removing Irrelevant Variables Amidst Lasso Iterations) and Its Application to Nuclear Material Detection", Automatica, 48, pp. 2107-2115.
  • Bai, E, Chan, K., Eichinger, W., and Kump, P. (2011) "Detection of Radionuclides from Weak and Poorly Resolved Spectra Using Lasso and Subsampling Techniques", Radiation Measurements, 46, pp. 1138-1146.




Email



paul@paulkump.com