Alan Pearl
Contractor - Principal Data Scientist
Greater Hartford United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Pearl is a Principal Data Scientist and former astrophysics postdoc who applies nine years of experience in scientific software, parallel ML, and statistical inference to production planning and large-scale data problems. After earning a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and building generative, differentiable deep-learning pipelines at Argonne to model galaxy formation, he transitioned to industry work at Alaska Airlines and AI training for physics prompts. He leads several open-source Python projects and has a track record of turning complex cosmological simulations and mock catalogs into efficient, gradient-optimized workflows. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he brings deep domain expertise in generative modeling, normalizing flows, and computational scaling to solve practical business problems. An underappreciated strength is his ability to compress high-dimensional scientific insight into reproducible software that teams can deploy and iterate on.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Manchester High SchoolB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteM.S., Ph.D., Physics, M.S., Ph.D., Physics at University of Pittsburgh
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
galaxy10
cosmology9
simulation9
python9
simulations9
evolution9
pure-python9
scientific-computing8
science8
scale8
halo8
large-scale8
scipy8
algorithms8
algebra8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlanPearl/multigrad
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Framework to implement JAX models that can be distributed over MPI
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 11 months
AlanPearl/mocksurvey
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:253 commits, 221 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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