Ryan Bensussan Harvey

I work full-time in the Executive Office of the President at the Office of Management and Budget as an IT Project Manager over a few web properties. Before OMB, I worked at Social Security Administration in the Office of the CIO on the agency's implementation of the Open Government Initiative, and on vision, strategy & innovation and health IT initiatives at the agency. Prior to Federal service, I worked at BAE Systems doing work on signal processing for underground imaging. I also maintain an affiliation with the University of Maryland's Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications.

Until June 2014, I was a doctoral candidate (all-but-dissertation) in the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation program in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, which I did while working full-time. My dissertation work focused on applying computational harmonic analysis and dimensionality reduction methods for large data to federal budget, political and economic data to understand the drivers of budget process health as meaured by level of contention and ability to produce products within deadlines. My doctoral work was done under the supervision of the late Professor Dennis M. Healy, Jr. (d. 2009), and Professor Wojtek Czaja. I completed my master's degree in the same field in 2007 focusing on the mathematics of digital signal processing under Dr. Healy.

As you may see from my various online profiles, I have considerable experience in software and algorithmic development, as well as significant classroom experience with mathematics related to computing, signal processing and data reduction. I am interested in applying this knowledge to difficult problems involving the processing of large