Data Scientist  ·  ML Engineer  ·  Applied Mathematician

Chris
Miles

Writing on machine learning, physics, and hardware.
Theory, code, and computation — built to be understood.

Writing

Posts on AI, physics, and hardware


Research

Selected publications

Active matter invasion of a viscous fluid: Unstable sheets and a no-flow theorem

Christopher J. Miles, Arthur A. Evans, Michael J. Shelley, Saverio E. Spagnolie

Physical Review Letters · 2019

Theoretical study of active matter at fluid interfaces, analyzing instability formation and flow constraints in a viscous setting.

Diffusion-limited mixing by incompressible flows

Christopher J. Miles, Charles R. Doering

Nonlinearity · 2018

How diffusion constrains the effectiveness of optimal incompressible flows, with consequences for achievable mixing rates and filament scales.

A Shell Model for Optimal Mixing

Christopher J. Miles, Charles R. Doering

Journal of Nonlinear Science · 2018

Reduced shell-model formulation for studying optimal mixing, capturing multiscale transport behavior while remaining analytically tractable.

Nucleation pressure threshold in acoustic droplet vaporization

Christopher J. Miles, Charles R. Doering, Oliver D. Kripfgans

Journal of Applied Physics · 2016

Theoretical treatment of the pressure threshold for droplet vaporization under ultrasound, aimed at clarifying phase-change contrast-agent behavior.

Optimal Control of the Advection-Diffusion Equation for Effective Fluid Mixing

Christopher J. Miles

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan · 2018

Doctoral thesis investigating optimal mixing strategies through control-theoretic analysis of the advection-diffusion equation.

Full citation record on Google Scholar.


About

Background

I'm a data scientist and machine learning engineer with a background in physics, applied mathematics, and scientific computing.

My work sits at the intersection of AI, computation, and mathematical modeling. Across industry and research settings, I've worked on machine learning, optimization, forecasting, simulation, and technical software — with Python as the main tool for building models and experiments.

That training shapes the way I approach engineering problems: start from the mechanism, make the assumptions explicit, and build models that are useful rather than decorative.

Topics that appear often

  • Machine learning and optimization
  • Scientific computing and simulation
  • Mathematical models for physical systems
  • Technical software projects and experiments
  • Hardware-oriented ideas for learning systems

MIT

B.S. in Physics

Cambridge, MA

University of Michigan

M.S. in Applied Mathematics

Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan

Ph.D. in Physics

Ann Arbor, MI · 2018