James Howard (mathematician)

James P. Howard, II, FRSA FBCS is an American mathematician at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory,[2] where he works as a data scientist and statistician.

This article is about the American mathematician. For other people named James Howard, see James Howard (disambiguation).
James P. Howard, II

FRSA FBCS
Member of the Board of Appeals for Howard County, Maryland
In office
February 7, 2011 – February 3, 2021
Born1979 (age 41–42)
Dayton, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Spouse(s)Nina Basu[1]
Academic background
Alma materUMBC
Doctoral advisorScott Farrow
Academic work
Disciplinepublic policy, mathematics
InstitutionsApplied Physics Laboratory, UMGC

Early life

Howard was born in Dayton, Ohio and attended schools in southwest Ohio. He studied mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, environmental science at the Johns Hopkins University, and public policy at the University of Baltimore. He earned his doctorate in 2014 in public policy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research focused on the economic costs of the National Flood Insurance Program.[3]

Career

He is a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory where his work focuses on data science. In addition, he has led research projects on blockchain,[4][5] augmented reality, and public health.[6] Howard also maintains software for managing phonetic spellings in R.[7]

Howard joined the Board of Appeals for Howard County in 2011,[8] where he has taken part in several controversial land use decisions.[9][10][11][12] In addition, Howard has been a member of the Maryland Defense Force since 2006, where he has served as information management chief.[13] He also served as a member of the Howard County Charter Review Commission in 2019 recommending changes to make redistricting independent and insulate decisions from political influence.[14] Howard ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018[15] and ran for delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention pledged to Elizabeth Warren.[16]

Awards

Books
  • Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online, CRC Press, 2020, co-edited with John F. Beyers[17]
  • Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research, CRC Press, 2020, co-edited with Natalie M. Scala[18]
  • Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R, CRC Press, 2017[19]
  • Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program, Springer, 2016[20]

Game credits

References
  1. Janene Holzberg (August 17, 2017). "10 things you didn't know about Inner Arbor Trust's Nina Basu". Howard Magazine.
  2. "James Howard". LinkedIn. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  3. Howard, II, James P. (2014). Social Benefits and Costs of the National Flood Insurance Program (PhD). University of Maryland Baltimore County.
  4. Challener, David C.; Vachino, Maria E.; Howard, II, James P.; Pikas, Christina K.; John, Anil (2019). "Blockchain Basics and Suitability: A Primer for Program Managers" (PDF). Journal of Information Technology Management. 30 (3): 33–44.
  5. Howard, II, James P.; Vachino, Maria E. (2020). "Blockchain Basics and Suitability: A Primer for Program Managers". IEEE Security & Privacy. 18 (1): 65–70. doi:10.1109/MSEC.2019.2944290. S2CID 210930196.
  6. Kilgore, Ashley (2020). "Is your favorite restaurant at risk of failing its health inspection?". Resoundingly Human (Podcast). INFORMS. doi:10.1287/orms.2020.01.01p.
  7. Howard, II, James P. (2018). "Phonetic Algorithms in R". Journal of Open Source Software. 3 (22): 480. doi:10.21105/joss.00480.
  8. "Howard County, Maryland -- Legislative Branch". Maryland Manual Online. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  9. Lindsey McPherson (October 18, 2011). "Frisky's monkeys can stay at Woodstock animal sanctuary". The Baltimore Sun.
  10. Amanda Yeager (October 2, 2013). "Attorney says Howard Board of Appeals violated open meetings law". The Baltimore Sun.
  11. Fatimah Waseem (October 22, 2015). "Board of Appeals signals go for AT&T tower in Fulton". The Baltimore Sun.
  12. Fatimah Waseem (March 24, 2017). "Appeals board rejects plan for Hindu temple in Howard County". The Baltimore Sun.
  13. Anthony Granado (October 11, 2014). "Captain James Howard Completes Ph.D. and Provides Talent to the Maryland Defense Force". MDDF Defender.
  14. Frank Hecker (March 3, 2020). "A better way to elect the Howard County Council". Civility and Truth.
  15. Cody Boteler (June 14, 2018). "Crowded field of eight Dems vie for three District 12 House seats". The Baltimore Sun.
  16. "Elizabeth Warren for President". Friends of James Howard. February 7, 2020.
  17. Howard, II, James P.; Beyers, John F., eds. (2020). Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online. New York: CRC Press. ISBN 9781351245586.
  18. Scala, Natalie M.; Howard, II, James P., eds. (2020). Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research. New York: CRC Press. ISBN 9780429467219.
  19. Howard, II, James P. (2017). Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R. New York: CRC Press. ISBN 9781498723633.
  20. Howard, II, James P. (2016). Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 9783319290621.
  21. "Hurricane". RPGGeek. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
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