Adam Ginsburg
Associate Professor
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Ginsburg is an associate professor and astrophysicist with 16 years of experience bridging research and open-source software development from Gainesville, Florida. He develops and documents scientific Python libraries widely used in astronomy—contributing notable features such as an FFT-based convolution to Astropy and backend fixes to astroquery and yt that improve FITS handling and data exports. His work spans visualization and data-science tooling in projects like glue, where he enhanced multi-layer workflows, and he brings a practiced eye for documentation and reproducible tutorials in astropy-tutorials. Combining academic leadership at the University of Florida with prior fellowships at NRAO and ESO, he specializes in turning complex observational data formats into robust, user-friendly tools. A not-obvious strength is his consistent focus on both code correctness and end-user clarity, from low-level URL parsing to polished tutorial content.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science, Astrophysics at Rice UniversityPhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
fftw10
debug10
visualization10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
python10
apidoc10
jupyter10
astronomy10
data-science10
user-manual10
basics10
data-structure10
numpy10
fits10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astroquery
Jun 2012 - Jan 2023
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 418 reviews, 2492 commits in 10 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily made changes to the core code of the astroquery library, specifically in the `alma` module. The changes involved fixing bugs in URL constructions, refactoring to allow for different return types, and updating tests to reflect changes in the ALMA archive. The user also introduced a utility for parsing the frequency support section of ALMA tables.
pythondataastropy-affiliatedastropyastronomy
astropy/astropy-tutorials
Feb 2014 - Aug 2022
Tutorials for the Astropy Project
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:28 reviews, 65 commits, 15 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam's commits primarily focus on improving the documentation and tutorials within the Astropy Project's tutorial repository. They replaced outdated pylab mentions with matplotlib=inline, updated plotting code to use pyplot as plt, and modified the setup.py file to integrate matplotlib inline. Moreover, they have split README into README and CONTRIBUTING documents and made minor updates and added clarifying text to improve clarity of content.
jupyter-bookpythonsciencesimulationlearn-astropy
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