Alex Meiburg
Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo
United States
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Top SchoolAlex Meiburg is a research engineer blending 12 years of experience across quantum information, AI-for-math, and experimental physics, currently splitting time between Harmonic and a postdoctoral fellowship at Perimeter Institute. He holds a PhD in Physics from UC Santa Barbara and a Physics/Math BA from Caltech, bringing deep theoretical foundations to applied research problems. His work spans building differentiable computer-vision pipelines for material BRDF estimation, low-power SLAM prototypes, and high-throughput signal processing for microwave kinetic inductance detectors, showing an unusual mix of optics, ML, and hardware-savvy engineering. At Harmonic he focuses on scaling AI that performs more rigorous mathematics, while at Perimeter he collaborates with leading quantum information theorists. Known for translating complex theory into reproducible code, he favors automatic differentiation and principled numerical methods. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between building research prototypes and production-ready systems, often surfacing practical insights that non-specialists miss.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at UC Santa Barbara
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
programming-language10
python10
bignum10
deep-learning10
julialang10
science10
math-library10
julia10
numerical10
information-theory10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
hpc10
ml9
neural-network9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Timeroot/mathlib4
Jun 2025 - Jun 2026
The math library of Lean 4
Contributions:78 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
Timeroot/othello
Mar 2016 - Jun 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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