William A. Tozier

Consulting Scientist & Performing Engineer

(phone number available only by request)
Initial contact via @Vaguery at GitHib or Twitter, or:

PO Box 1261
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1261

Works

• 2011–present: Founder, Coscience
  Coscience is a non-profit “collaboration startup”, working with (not for) individual academic colleagues on computational engineering and science projects in an agile setting. Projects will focus on simulation, statistics, machine learning, data mining, artificial life, and data visualization. It is currently “under the radar”.
  Ann Arbor, MI
• 2010–2015: Co-Owner, Workantile Coworking Community
  Workantile is a self-sustaining membership community for freelancers, remote employees, and independents who would otherwise work on their own at home or in coffee shops. It provides a social foundation for the new “gig economy”.
  Ann Arbor, MI
• 2008–2011: Co-Owner, Vague Innovation, LLC
  Vague Innovation provided business planning and strategic advice to businesses traditionally ignored by Business Development organizations: independents, creative freelancers, and members of the “gig economy”.
  Ann Arbor, MI
• 2000–2002: Founder, Data Pageant, LLC
  Data Pageant produced machine learning systems focused on what today is called really Big Data: real-time technical equities traders and corporate intelligence systems.
  Ann Arbor, MI
• 1995–2007: Principal, Tozier Consulting
  Introductory and advanced tutorials on agent-based modeling, agile methodologies applied to research projects, data mining and simulation, and evolutionary algorithms applications.
  Ann Arbor, MI

In Print

• Editor, with Rick Riolo, Brian Goldman and Bill Worzel, of Genetic Programming Theory and Practice 2016, Springer Verlag, in press.
• Book chapter: “GP As If You Meant It: An Exercise for Mindful Practice”, in Genetic Programming, Theory and Practice 2015, Springer Verlag, in press.

Consulting Domains

• Organizational design for informal and ad hoc collaborative technical networks
• Language and representation design for genetic programming and machine learning applications
• The future of engineering design practice
• Design and implementation of automated trading strategies for financial traders and investors
• Automating the engineering design of car parts
• Lectures, tutorials and workshops on the study of complex systems
• Multi-objective optimization using general classes of adaptive search methods
• Special design considerations for the creation and engineering of complex systems
• Heuristics for online control of evolutionary search and optimization
• Simultaneous quantitative risk assessment and optimization of traditional system dynamics models using evolutionary algorithms
• Adaptive solutions for packet routing and load balancing
• Evolutionary algorithms and agent-based solutions for professional financial managers
• Pharmaceutical lead discovery using oligonucleotide microarray datamining methods
• System identification and modeling of combustion and chemical manufacturing processes using evolutionary algorithms
• Visualization of high-dimensional system dynamics using interactive clustering methods
• Application of evolutionary optimization in agronomic modeling
• Meta-optimization & hyperheuristics: automated identification of search methods suited to classes of optimization problems
• Artificial life and agent-based models in engineering and basic research applications
• Dynamics of cultural transmission for marketing, organizational behavior and knowledge management

Programming

Fully proficient

• Clojure and ClojureScript
• Ruby, with a focus on non-platform programming
• Apple Swift
• Python
• LaTeX
• Mathematica

Productive experience

• Project Jupyter
• R
• Lua

Communication platforms

• jekyll
• sinatra.rb
• rails
• luminus (Clojure)
• reagent (ClojureScript interface for React.js)
• highcharts.js

Education

• Ph.D. candidate, Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2004–2006
• M.A., Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 1997
• Santa Fe Institute Summer School on Complex Systems, 1991
• BRL DNA Sequence Analysis Workshop, Miami University, 1988
• Department of Botany, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), 1987–89
• B.S., Biology, Case Western Reserve University (with Honors), 1986