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[Daniel Okunbor]

WORK             Seeking a position as a computer professional,
OBJECTIVE        college lecturer, numerical scientific computing 
                 research associate or post-doctorate.(Willing to relocate.)

PRESENT          1221 Lierman, Urbana, Ill 61801.
ADDRESS          Home Phone: 217-344-7532; Work Phone: 217-244-0941;
                 e-mail: okunbor at cs.uiuc.edu

PERSONAL         Male; Birth Date: 07/17/60;
DATA             Birthplace: Benin, Nigeria; Married.


DATE             
AVAILABLE        December, 1992

EDUCATIONAL      *   Univ. of Illinois, College of Engineering,
RECORD               Urbana, Illinois, 9/88 - 12/92 : PhD degree in 
                     Computer Science, Dec. 1992,Scholastic Average: 4.7/5.0
                 *   Univ. of Toledo, College of Science, Toledo, Ohio
                     9/87 - 8/88 :  No degree earned}, Aug., 1988;
                     Scholastic Average: 3.62/4.00
                 *   Univ. of Benin, Faculty of Science, Benin City, Nigeria
                     9/84 - 5/85 : MS degree in Industrial Mathematics,
                     Jan., 1986; Scholastic Average: 4.67/5.00 
                 *   Univ. of Benin, Faculty of Science, Benin City, Nigeria
                     9/80 - 5/83 : BS degree in Industrial Mathematics,
                     July, 1983; Scholastic Average: 4.73/5.00

RESEARCH         Numerical Scientific Computing: numerical software design,
AREAS            numerical solution of differential equations,
                 parallel algorithms and statistics.

OPERATING        
SYSTEMS
and SOFTWARE     UniX, MS-DOS, Matlab, Mathematica, SPlus, Maple.

COMPUTER 
LANGAUGES        FORTRAN, C, C++, Pascal, Basic

HARDWARE         Sun workstation, Cray-YMP, Macintosh, Convex240, 
                 IBM RS/6000, Multimax.

SCHOLARSHIPS     *    Nigeria Fed. Govt. Merit Award(1981-82) for high 	
AND AWARDS            academic standing (1981)
                 *    Univ. of Benin, Math. Dept. Prize for best 
                      3rd. year student (1982)
                 *    Univ. of Benin, Prof. Alexander Oppenheim Prize
                      for best Math. undergraduate student (1983)
                 *    Univ. of Benin, Dean's Prize for best Faculty 
                      of Science undergraduate student (1983)
                 *    Rotary Foundation of Rotary International,
                      Graduate Scholarship (1987)

PUBLICATIONS     *    "Canonical Numerical Methods for Hamiltonian Dynamical
                      Systems," Ph.D Thesis, in preparation
                 *    (with R. D. Skeel) "An Explicit Runge-Kutta-Nystroem 
                      Method is Canonical if and only if Its Adjoint is
                      Explicit," SIAM J. Numer. Anal. Vol. 29(2), 1992 
                 *    (with R. D. Skeel) "Explicit Canonical Methods for 
                      Hamiltonian Systems," to appear in Math. Comp., 1992
                 *    "Canonical Methods for Hamiltonian Systems: 
                      Numerical Experiments," to appear in Physica D, 1992
                 *    (with R. Bhatnagar and H. W. Vayo) "Application of 
                      Quasilinearization Viscoelastic Flow through a 
                      Porous Annulus," to appear, 1992
                 *    (with R. D. Skeel) "Canonical Numerical Integrators
                      for Molecular Dynamics Simulations," in progress
                 *    (with R. D. Skeel) "Canonical Runge-Kutta-Nystroem 
                      Integrators of Orders 5 amd 6," submitted to 
                      J. Comp. & Appl. Math.
                 *    "Explicit Runge-Kutta Schemes for Stiff Systems of 
                      Ordinary Differential Equations," MSc. Thesis
                 *    "Variable Step Size does not Harm Second-Order 
                      Integrators for Hamiltonian Systems," submitted to 
                      J. Comp. & Appl. Math.

ACTIVITIES       
/HOBBIES         Table Tennis, indoor games, Red Cross and running

WORK             *    Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Ill - Research Assistant:
EXPERIENCE            Numerical Scientific Computing, 1988-date
                 *    Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, 
                      Ill - Hourly Assistant: Computer Programs for analysis 
                      of meteorological data
                 *    Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio - Teaching Assistant: 
                      Mathematics, 1987-1988
                 *    Univ. of Benin, Benin, Nigeria - Assistant Lecturer:
                      Numerical Analysis and Statistics, 1983-1987
                 *    Bendel Pharmaceutical Ltd., Benin, Nigeria - Accounts 
                      Supervisor: Accounting Matters and Cashering, 1978-1980

PROJECTS         *    designed a computer program for computing final
                      degree results for college of sciences at the
                      university of Benin, Nigeria in collaboration 
                      with Prof S. Fatunla of the same university (1983)
                 *    collected, analyzed statistically, data in regards to
                      primary health care programs in Nigeria. A project funded
                      by World Bank with Prince Frank Akinzua as 
                      the Principal Investigator(1987).  

REFERENCES       *    Dr. R. D. Skeel, 2315 Digital Laboratory, Univ.
                      of Illinois, Urbana, Ill 61801, Ph.: 217-333-2727
                 *    Dr. G. Sameh, Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of
                      Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
                 *    Dr. P. Saylor, 2314 Digital Laboratory, Univ.
                      of Illinois, Urbana, Ill 61801, Ph.: 217-333-0258 
                 *    Dr. F. Saied 2312 Digital Laboratory, Univ. of 
                      Illinois, Urbana, Ill 61801, Ph.: 217-244-1621