Michael B Milligan

View Scopus Profile

Michael B Milligan

Assistant Director for Application Development Services

 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1317-3137
20042023

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Personal profile

Michael Milligan manages the Application Development Solutions group. In this role he leads a team of talented software developers who create and maintain applications both for internal MSI operations as well as for external clients and sponsored projects. As a scientific computing consultant, Michael Milligan aims to assist our research community in effectively using HPC resources and technologies.

At the intersection of these roles, he leads MSI's Interactive Supercomputing initiatives. A major product of this work is our collaboration with Project Jupyter and our Jupyter Notebooks gateway currently available as a public MSI Beta service.

As the former application software manager at MSI and a contributor to the Debian project, he has considerable experience with software licensing considerations.

Prior to joining MSI, Michael led the Flight Software Group for the EBEX suborbital experiment, and he continues to collaborate with the EBEX team.

Research interests

  • Interactive supercomputing -- novel workflows and software tools for visualization, data exploration, and iterative development using supercomputing resources
  • Python -- scientific computing, visualization, parallelization, data wrangling and informatics, reproducibility, and collaboration techniques
  • Software sustainability -- collaborative tools, software packaging, licensing considerations, open source best practices
  • Astronomy and astrophysics -- image processing, "big data" astronomy and survey science, simulation and modelling
  • GIS and spatial computing -- Michael has led MSI's collaboration with U-Spatial to develop HPC capabilities for geospatial applications

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Award Date: May 26 2011

Fingerprint

The Fingerprint is created by mining the titles and abstracts of the person's research outputs and projects/funding awards to create an index of weighted terms from discipline-specific thesauri.
  • 1 Similar Profiles
View full fingerprint

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
Explore network further
  • 11 Conference contribution
  • 7 Article
  • 1 Paper
  • 1 Conference article

  • Comparing Open Ondemand and Jupyterhub as Interactive HPC Gateways

    Milligan, M., Allan, G. T., Dunn, N. J. H. & Mix, M., Jul 23 2023, PEARC 2023 - Computing for the common good: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 466-468 3 p. (Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Intensity-coupled Polarization in Instruments with a Continuously Rotating Half-wave Plate

    Didier, J., Miller, A. D., Araujo, D., Aubin, F., Geach, C., Johnson, B., Korotkov, A., Raach, K., Westbrook, B., Young, K., Aboobaker, A. M., Ade, P., Baccigalupi, C., Bao, C., Chapman, D., Dobbs, M., Grainger, W., Hanany, S., Helson, K. & Hillbrand, S. & 14 others, Hubmayr, J., Jaffe, A., Jones, T. J., Klein, J., Lee, A., Limon, M., Macdermid, K., Milligan, M., Pascale, E., Reichborn-Kjennerud, B., Sagiv, I., Tucker, C., Tucker, G. S. & Zilic, K., May 1 2019, In: Astrophysical Journal. 876, 1, 54.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    5 Scopus citations

  • Jupyter as Common Technology Platform for Interactive HPC Services

    Milligan, M., Jul 26 2018. 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

    4 Scopus citations

  • Temperature calibration of the E and B experiment

    Aubin, F., Aboobaker, A. M., Bao, C., Geach, C., Hanany, S., Jones, T., Klein, J., Milligan, M., Raach, K., Young, K., Zilic, K., Helson, K., Korotkov, A., Marchenko, V., Tucker, G. S., Ade, P., Pascale, E., Araujo, D., Chapman, D. & Didier, J. & 23 others, Hillbrand, S., Johnson, B., Limon, M., Miller, A. D., Reichborn-Kjennerud, B., Feeney, S., Jaffe, A., Stompor, R., Tristram, M., Dobbs, M., Macdermid, K., Smecher, G., Borrill, J., Kisner, T., Hilton, G., Hubmayr, J., Reintsema, C., Baccigalupi, C., Puglisi, G., Lee, A., Westbrook, B., Levinson, L. & Sagiv, I., 2018, 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, Proceedings. Bianchi, M., Jantzen, R. T., Ruffini, R. & Ruffini, R. (eds.). World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, p. 2084-2089 6 p. (14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    Open Access
    1 Scopus citations

  • The EBEX Balloon-borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout

    Abitbol, M., Aboobaker, A. M., Ade, P., Araujo, D., Aubin, F., Baccigalupi, C., Bao, C., Chapman, D., Didier, J., Dobbs, M., Feeney, S. M., Geach, C., Grainger, W., Hanany, S., Helson, K., Hillbrand, S., Hilton, G., Hubmayr, J., Irwin, K. & Jaffe, A. & 19 others, Johnson, B., Jones, T., Klein, J., Korotkov, A., Lee, A., Levinson, L., Limon, M., Macdermid, K., Miller, A. D., Milligan, M., Raach, K., Reichborn-Kjennerud, B., Reintsema, C., Sagiv, I., Smecher, G., Tucker, G. S., Westbrook, B., Young, K. & Zilic, K., Nov 2018, In: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 239, 1, 8.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    18 Scopus citations
View all 20 Research outputs