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= Michael C. Grant, Ph.D.

{{<img src="head2.png" alt="Michael" class="lfloat" id="lfloat">}} Michael Grant
is an independent researcher and consultant in
computational mathematics, specializing in optimization, signal processing,
and simulation. He is the primary developer and maintainer of 
[cvx CVX],
a modeling framework for [dcp.html disciplined convex programming].
As of April 2009, [cvx CVX]
had been incorporated into coursework in at least 29
universities and used in some capacity in over 120 additional universities, 
research institutions, and corporations. 

Dr. Grant received a B.S. degree in 
[http://ece.utexas.edu Electrical and Computer Engineering] from the 
[http://www.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin] in 1990;
and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
[http://ee.stanford.edu Electrical Engineering] from
[http://www.stanford.edu Stanford University] in 1992 and 2005, respectively,
as part of the
[http://isl.stanford.edu/ Information Systems Laboratory].
He was the recipient of a National Merit
Scholarship, a Virginia and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Scholarship in 
Engineering, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

After the completion of his doctorate, Dr. Grant remained at Stanford 
to serve as a consulting assistant professor
in the Information Systems Laboratory.
He also served as a research associate in the
[http://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/index.php Department of Energy Resources Engineering],
where he assisted in the development of the
[http://pangea.stanford.edu/research/smartfields/index.php Smart Fields Consortium],
a multidisciplinary program tasked
with applying advanced optimization 
methods to petroleum reservoir development. 

In the 1990s, Dr. Grant was a co-founder and vice president of product development at
Numerical Technologies, Inc. (later acquired by [http://www.synopsys.com Synopsys]), 
which applied advanced numerical methods to the simulation, verification, 
and design of the semiconductor lithography process. 
He was also an early contributor to Clarity Wireless, Inc. 
(later acquired by [http://www.cisco.com Cisco Systems, Inc.]), which designed and produced 
advanced wireless networking algorithms, chipsets, and equipment. 

In addition to the continued development of [cvx CVX],
Dr. Grant is a co-founder and chief engineer of 
[http://www.cardinalopt.com Cardinal Optimization Inc.], a company devoted
to the commercialization of several optimization-based localization technologies.
He holds a part-time position as Staff Scientist in the
Department of [http://www.acm.caltech.edu Applied and Computational Mathematics]
at the [http://www.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology],
where he participates in research in the area of
compressed sensing. In addition, he teaches an annual, graduate-level
course in Nonlinear
Programming for the
[http://www.me.utexas.edu/areas/orie/ Operations Research and Industrial Engineering]
Group at the [http://www.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin].

Dr. Grant
currently lives in [http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/ Austin], TX, where he enjoys 
spending time with
his wife Callie and daughter Anna, indulging in a few video games,
and serving in his [http://www.austinridge.org/ church].