Bridget Andersen
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz
Montreal, Quebec, United States
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Top SchoolBridget Andersen is a physics PhD candidate at McGill University’s Trottier Space Institute, researching radio transients such as fast radio bursts and pulsars through new telescope instrumentation and detection algorithms. She has built hardware and software to enable milliarcsecond localizations of FRBs using very long baseline interferometry with the CHIME/FRB Outrigger array. In parallel, she contributes to open-source pulsar analysis as a back-end developer for the scottransom/presto toolkit, introducing acceleration search features like the -wmax option and refining core algorithms. Her work blends experimental instrumentation with software engineering to advance radio astronomy, including timing analysis of CHIME-discovered binary pulsar Snowbird (J2108+45). Bridget holds an MS in Physics from McGill and a BS in Astrophysics and a BA in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary foundation. Based in Montreal, she brings a practical, production-focused approach to research-grade instrumentation and scalable data analysis.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Astrophysics (BS), Computer Science (BA), Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Astrophysics (BS), Computer Science (BA) at University of VirginiaDoctor of Philosophy Physics, Doctor of Philosophy Physics at McGill University
Github Skills (11)
c1710
fourier-transform10
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c1110
frequency-analysis10
commandline9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
commandline-interface9
openmp5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scottransom/presto
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Open source pulsar search and analysis toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bridget's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `presto` toolkit by introducing new command-line options and features related to the acceleration search functionality. They added a `-wmax` option, enabling the search for the max Fourier frequency double derivative, and integrated it across multiple files including `accelsearch_cmd.c`, `clig/accelsearch_cmd.cli`, and `include/accelsearch_cmd.h`. Furthermore, the user merged branches and made subsequent adjustments to helper functions and data structures involved in the acceleration search, including modifications to the initialization and power calculation stages of the algorithm.
pythonpulsaranalysis-toolkit
bandersen441/bandersen441.github.io
Jan 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:41 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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