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Biography - Jeffrey A Miller

Dr. Jeffrey Miller
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California
MS in Computer Science, University of Southern California
BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Southern California


EDUCATION
Dr. Miller earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science in 2002, the Masters of Science degree in Computer Science in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2007, all from the University of Southern California. His research while at USC was under the advisement of Professor Ellis Horowitz, Professor Petros Ioannou, and Professor Ming-Deh Huang. His research interests include vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, and distributed algorithms and software architectures for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Dr. Jeffrey Miller's professional experience began as a systems administrator, then progressed through the junior programmer, intermediate programmer, senior programmer, technical lead, chief architect, director of engineering, project manager, and founder, at numerous companies. His skills range from elementary programming to high-level algorithms and software development methodologies.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering department at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Prior to joining UAA in 2007, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science department at California State University, Los Angeles for 5 years.

In 2003, he was voted Professor of the Year by the students in the Computer Science department at Cal State LA. In his 8 years of teaching, his average overall rating for effectiveness as an instructor is 1.35 on a 5 point scale, with 1 being exceptional. This value was averaged from 46 classes and over 800 students.

Dr. Miller’s current work focuses on parameterizing distributed architectures to determine a priori advantages to different applications based on the architecture used. He is also focused on gathering ITS data from individual vehicles through vehicle-tracking devices installed in the vehicles to provide a test bed for other researchers to exploit the data for their own use.

The simulator he developed, FreeSim (http://www.freewaysimulator.com), allows live data to be fed in from loop detectors or individual vehicles, which then allows fastest path algorithms or other ITS applications to be run on that data. This simulator is used in a live environment at http://www.alaskatraffic.net.

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITIONS
Dr. Miller has published papers at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) each year since 2006 and at the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IVS) each year since 2007, including at the Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications (V2VCOM) workshop that is held in conjunction with IVS. He has served as the General Chair for the IEEE Fall 2009 Vehicular Technology Conference, and has been the Local Arrangements Chair for the IEEE 2010 International Conference on Robotics and Automation and the IEEE 2011 Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference. He is also the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE Fall 2011 Vehicular Technology Conference and the General Chair for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference in 2012.

He has served on the Technical Program Committee for V2VCOM in 2008 and for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) in 2009. He has chaired sessions at ITSC in 2007 and 2008 and at the IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems in 2009.

In addition, he has been a reviewer for the IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications in 2008, the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference in 2007 and 2008, the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Symposium in 2008, the Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshop in 2008, and the International Symposium on Transport Simulation in 2008.

He is also an Associate Editor for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and is a member of the Board of Governors for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. He was elected to be the Vice President of Administrative Activities for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society from 2011-2013. He is also actively involved in many non-profit organizations in Alaska, including the IEEE Alaska section, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society of Alaska, the Women in Transportation Seminar organization, and the Alaska Freight Advisory Committee. He received an award from the city of Anchorage in October 2010 for being the Meeting Champion for having an economic impact to the city of Anchorage of over $3.1 million from all of the IEEE conferences he has helped bring to the city.

In addition to his role in ITS research, he has also authored introductory programming classes and enterprise architectures classes, as well as sat on numerous committees reviewing curriculum, hiring faculty, and preparing for ABET and university accreditation.

In 2009 (and again in 2010), the Computer Systems Engineering department at the University of Alaska in Anchorage obtained ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditation, which makes them the only ABET-accredited Computer Systems Engineering program in the state. Dr. Miller chaired the committee that successfully achieved the accreditation.

OTHER INTERESTS
For almost 10 years, Dr. Miller consulted with numerous companies, from startups to large telecommunication corporations, as well as started his own company to sell handheld point-of-sale systems to the restaurant industry. He still is very active in programming, consulting for companies around the country and working on developing course curriculum for book publishers.

Dr. Miller currently resides in Anchorage, Alaska with his daughter.