Bio

Barry Drake is a joint senior research scientist with the School of Computational Science & Engineering in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) Information and Communications Laboratory (ICL). At ICL, Drake is in the Innovative Computing Division where he serves as Technical Lead for the Algorithms and Analytics Branch. His interests include adaptive algorithms, learning machines, numerical linear algebra, and applying these technologies to solve real-world problems. Drake has been awarded four patents and published numerous papers in the areas of optical computers, adaptive algorithms for signal processing, and adaptive machine learning methods. More recently, he has been performing research in the areas of Raman spectroscopy and text analytics, such as topic modeling, using matrix low-rank approximation methods. He is the GTRI lead of the Georgia Tech/GTRI DARPA-funded XDATA research team. Drake also served as co-founder of three startup companies and held positions at large Fortune 500 companies, such as Imation Corp. He began his career as a mathematician at a federal laboratory -- the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC). Drake holds bachelors’ in mathematics and forest biology and a master’s in applied mathematics from the University of Washington.