Alexander Koufos
Steering Committee Member at Stanford University
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Koufos is a research software engineer and steering committee member with 11 years of experience applying high-performance computational methods to problems spanning condensed matter physics, superconductivity, autonomous systems, and space science. With a Ph.D. in Computational Sciences, he has built and maintained production-grade C++ and Python simulation and data pipelines—from Navy submarine trainers to Stanford’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and autonomous-vehicle research—while improving CI/CD, documentation, and infrastructure. He combines deep domain knowledge in electronic structure and particle physics with practical software engineering skills (CUDA, Docker, AMQP, HLA, CI) and a track record of transitioning research code into robust operational systems. Active in community leadership, he helps shape the US Research Software Engineer Association and chaired its 2024 election, reflecting a commitment to governance and inclusive technical communities. Notably, he has balanced academic research and applied engineering across international collaborations and won a best-paper award in multi-robot systems at ICRA 2020.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Sciences and Informatics (Computational Material Science/Physics), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Sciences and Informatics (Computational Material Science/Physics) at George Mason UniversityGithub contributions (3)
akoufos/Tight-binding-CPA
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 2 months
akoufos/Cuda-Practice
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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