Abel Peirson
Quantitative Researcher (GQS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Peirson is a quantitative researcher and PhD physicist blending eight years of experience in ML-driven astrophysics and quantitative finance, currently at Citadel and a student researcher on Google AI’s Brain team. He holds a funded Stanford PhD and NASA FINESST award for applying machine learning to X-ray polarimetry and blazar jet physics, and previously modeled jets at Oxford and CERN-era beam diagnostics. Abel co-founded an AI-driven iOS app, Dank Learning, demonstrating product-minded engineering alongside deep research expertise. His background spans building dynamical neural models of fly navigation to unsupervised visual learning, showing a rare ability to move between theoretical physics, applied ML research, and production systems. Based in New York, he mixes academic rigor with startup pragmatism and a track record of securing competitive research funding. A less obvious strength is his hands-on experience translating complex physical instrumentation problems into deployable ML solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Physics (MPhys), Physics, First Class (Distinction), Top 10%, Master of Physics (MPhys), Physics, First Class (Distinction), Top 10% at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
artificial-intelligence10
python10
image-classification10
codebase10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
computer-vision10
polarization9
robotics4
discrete-event-simulation3
simulation3
modeling-tool3
simulator3
modular2
optimization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alpv95/planetPlotter
Jun 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
alpv95/SSCpol
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
Synchrotron and synchrotron-self Compton polarization for relativistic jets.
Contributions:3 releases, 112 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 7 months
relativisticrelativistic-jetssynchrotronpolarizationjets
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