Alex Deich
Research Staff Member at KU Leuven
Urbana, Illinois, Belgium
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Top SchoolAlex Deich is a research staff member and computational physicist specializing in software for gravitational wave detection, currently developing LISA spacecraft simulation at KU Leuven. With 11 years of experience building high-performance C/C++ and Python systems, he bridges algorithmic insight and software best practices to model particle dynamics and chaos near black holes. His PhD work delivered a distributed C/C++ package with a Python wrapper used to publish peer-reviewed results and detect high-precision chaos indicators. Comfortable operating large datasets in AWS and leading teams, he has also applied ML tools like TensorFlow to space-mission planning at NASA Swift. Colleagues rely on him for numerical rigor, scalable engineering, and an appetite for uncovering large-scale structure through combined mathematical and computational investigation.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Reed CollegePhD, PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Stackoverflow
302reputation
37kreached
3answers
11questions
Github Skills (19)
gtk8
qt7
python7
jupyter-notebook7
refactoring7
gsl6
forloop6
numpy6
gcc6
scipy6
matplotlib6
jupyter6
linter5
data-visualization5
data-science5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deichdeich/deichdeich.github.io
May 2016 - Aug 2025
Contributions:284 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
deichdeich/lightcurves
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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