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RESUMEPersonal:Education:Leslie V. FosterDepartment of Mathematics and Computer ScienceSan Jose State UniversitySan Jose, CA 95192Telephone (408) 924-5123Ph. D. Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1978M.A. Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA. 1971B.S. Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA. 1969. Minor inPhysics.Areas of Specialization:Scientific Computation and Numerical AnalysisTeaching Experience:• 1981-present Professor of Mathematics at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.Co-author of a degree: Bachelors of Science in Applied and Computational Mathematics.• 1981-1982. Visiting Professor of Systems Engineering and Fulbright Fellow, Universidadde los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, South America.• 1977 – 1980. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburg in Johnstown,Johnstown, PA.• 1976. Instructor of Mathematics, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi.Publications:1. “Stable and Efficient Gaussian Process Calculations,” accepted, subject to minorrevisions, for Journal of Machine Learning Research, coauthored with Alex Waagen,Nabeela Aijaz, Michael Hurley, Apolonio Luis, Joel Rinsky and ChandrikaSatyavolu, Michael Way, Paul Gazis, and Ashok Srivastava. November, 2008.

2. “Improved linear algebra methods for redshift computation from limited spectrumdata - II.” Coauthored with Alex Waagen, Nabeela Aijaz, Michael Hurley, ApoloLuis, Joel Rinsky, Chandrika Satyavolu, Ashok Srivastava, Paul Gazis, and MichaelWay. NASA Technical Report NASA/TM-2008-214571, 2008. (seentrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp )3. “An efficient algorithm for solving rank-deficient least squares problems” withcoauthor Rajesh Kommu. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 32,pp. 157-165, 2006.4. “Solving rank-deficient and ill-posed problems using UTV and QRP factorizations,”SIAM J. Matrix Anal. and Appl. Vol. 25, pp. 582-600, 2003.5. “Corrigendum to the growth factor and efficiency of Gaussian elimination with RookPivoting,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 98, P. 177, 1998.6. “The growth factor and efficiency of Gaussian elimination with rook pivoting,”Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 86, pp. 177-194, 1997.7. “Singular values of a classical matrix, solution to problem 10312,” The AmericanMathematical Monthly, Vol. 104, pp. 172-173, 1997.8. “On the convergence Rate of the Cell Discretization Algorithm for Solving EllipticProblems,” with Maria Cayco and Howard Swann, Math. Comp., Vol. 64, pp. 1397-1419, 1995.9. "Gaussian Elimination with Partial Pivoting Can Fail In Practice," SIAM J. MatrixAnal. and Appl., Vol. 15, pp. 1354-1362, 1994.10. "The Probability of Large Diagonal Entries in QR Factorizations," SIAM J. Sci.Stat. Computing., Vol. 11, pp. 531-544, 1990.11. "Modifications of the Normal Equations Method that are Numerically Stable," inNumerical Linear Algebra, Digital Signal Processing and Parallel Algorithms, G.Golub and P. Van Dooren editors, Springer-Verlag, pp. 501-512, 1990.12. "Rank and Null Space Calculations Using Matrix Decompositions Without ColumnInterchanges," Linear Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 74, pp. 47-71, 1986.13. "A Comparison of Solutions to the Minimal Design Problem," IEEE Trans., Vol. AC-29, pp. 186-188, 1984.14. "Norm Selection in Solutions to the Minimal Design Problem," IEEE Trans., Vol.AC-29, pp. 188-190, 1984.

15. "Generalizations of Laguerre's Method: Higher Order Methods," SIAM J. onNumerical Analysis, Vol. 18, pp. 1005-1018, Dec. 1981.16. "The Convergence of Rational Functions Closely Related to Pade Approximants," J.Approximation Theory, Vol. 28, February, 1980.17. "A Practical Solution to the Minimal Design Problem," IEEE Trans. on AutomaticControl, Vol. AC-24, pp. 449-454, June, 1979.18. "Applications of Non-linear Approximation Theory to the Model ReductionProblem," Ph.D. dissertation, Div. Applied Math., Brown University, 1978. Advisor:W.A. Wolovich.Conference Presentations and Professional Activities:1. “Application of Stable and Efficient Gaussian Process Calculations to DynamicalSystem Prognostics”, NASA Aviation Safety Technical Forum, St. Louis, MO, Oct.2007.2. “Row Echelon Form is Accurate After All,” Internation Linear Algebra SocietyAnnual Conference, Shanghai, China, July, 2007.3. ‘Efficient and Stable Gaussian Process Calculations’, NASA Data Mining inAeronautics, Sciences and Exploration Systems (DMASES 2007), Mountain View,CA, June, 2007.4. Invited panelist for the Numerical Computing Panel for the Division of Computingand Communications of the National Science Foundation. Reviewed proposals to theNSF, July 31 – August 1, 2006.5. “A BLAS-3 Implementation of Rook Pivoting and Rank-Revealing Applications,”invited speaker at the Householder Symposium XVI, Champion, PA, May 26, 2005.Also presented at Southern California Matrix Meeting, San Jose, CA, November 13,2004.6. “Why the QR Factorization can be more Accurate than the SVD,” SIAM Nationalmeeting, Portland, Oregon, July, 2004. Also presented Univ. of California BerkeleyNumerical Analysis Seminar, May 14, 2003 and Stanford Numerical AnalysisSeminar, May, 2004.7. “Comparison of LAPACK’s methods for solving rank-deficient linear systems,”invited speaker at the 2002 Householder Meeting in Peebles Scotland, June 2002.8. “How often are solutions produced by the QR factorization better than those producedby the SVD?” presented at the Southern California Matrix Meeting, San Jose, CA,November 2001.

9. “Accuracy of Regularization using QR Factorizations,” presented at the 2001 SIAMConference on Linear Algebra, Systems and Control, Boston, MA, 2001.10. “Regularization using Gaussian elimination with rook pivoting,” invited speaker atthe 1999 Householder Meeting in Whistler, Canada, June 1999.11. “New developments about rook pivoting,” presented at the Southern CaliforniaMatrix Meeting, San Jose, CA, November 1998.12. “Rank revealing properties of rook pivoting” presented at the SIAM National meetingin Palo Alto, CA, July 1997.13. “Properties of Gaussian elimination with rook pivoting” presented at the 1997International Conference on Numerical Analysis in Dundee, Scotland, June 1997.14. “Gaussian Elimination with Zigzag Pivoting” invited speaker at the conferencecelebrating Bill Gragg’s 60 th birthday, Monterey, CA, Nov. 1996.15. "Gaussian Elimination with Partial Pivoting Can Fail in Practice," invited plenaryspeaker at the 1993 Householder Symposium in Lake Arrowhead, CA, June 1993.16. "An O(n) Class of Estimators for the Smallest Singular Value of TriangularMatrices," invited to present this half hour talk at the SIAM National Meeting in LosAngeles in July 1992.17. "Stable Modifications of Normal Equation Methods," NATO Advanced StudyInstitute on Numerical Linear Algebra, Digital Signal Processing and ParallelAlgorithms, Lueven, Belgium, Aug. 11, 1988.18. Part of planning group for Conference on Computing in Undergraduate Mathematicssponsored by NSF, Chicago, Illinois, June 2-4, 1987.19. "The Probability of Large Diagonal Entries in QR Factorizations," 1986 SIAMNational Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, July 1986 and Stanford University,December, 1986.20. "Rank Determination using Matrix Decomposition without ColumnInterchanges," 1983 SIAM National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, June 1983 andStanford University, March, 1983.21. "Generalizations of Laguerre's Method: Lower Order Methods," 1981 SIAMNational Meeting, Troy, N.Y., June 1981.22. "Practical Solution to the Minimal Design Problem," 1978 Conference onInformation Science and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, 1978.

Work and Consulting Experience:• 2007. Director of Camcos Project with NASA Ames on “Improved linear algebramethods for redshift computation from limited spectrum data.” The project involvedNASA scientist and a team of students.• 1987-1988. Consulting with IBM Applied Mathematics Center Project on "CellDiscretization." The project involved IBM scientist and a team of students.• 1983-1985. Director of a San Jose State Applied Mathematics Clinic Projects on"Electromigration in VLSI Chips” and on "Heat Flow in Semiconductor Structures."The projects involved HP scientist and a team of students.• 1981-1982. Consulting for Instituto SER in Bogota, Colombia. Worked on simulation ofColombian social system.• 1970. Summer employment as a mathematician at the Naval Electronics Laboratory inSan Diego, California. Participant in operations research studies of naval systems.• 1968-1969. Summer employment as a mathematician with Lawrence RadiationLaboratory in Livermore, California. Computer simulation of nuclear reactions.Honors and Grants:• 1986 –1990. Co-directory of two NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvementgrants "Computing Equipment for Realistic Modeling." $154,000.• 1985-1987. NSF research grant to study "Rank Deficient Sparse Least Squares."$39,750.• 1983-1985. Received a series of three grants from Hewlett Packard to study "Heat Flowin Semiconductor Structures" and "Electromigration in VLSI Chips." $75,000.• 1981-1982. Fulbright Fellow in Mathematics. Bogota, Colombia.• 1981. NSF research grant to study "Generalizations of Laguerre's method." $10,192.Professional Organizations:References:SIAM, ACMAvailable upon request.