Alvin Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Woven by Toyota
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying high-performance computing and scientific software techniques to real-world problems, now contributing to Woven by Toyota’s autonomous vehicle efforts. He brings deep expertise in C++, Python (NumPy/SciPy), MPI, SLURM/PBS, and numerical methods for PDEs from a PhD in Computational Science and years developing Proteus, an open-source multiphase flow toolkit. Alvin has a proven track record of optimizing simulations for supercomputers—delivering 10x speedups via mesh adaptation and refactoring solver APIs to improve usability and scalability. He pairs research-grade rigor (a posteriori error estimation, hybrid finite element methods) with pragmatic DevOps practices like repository cleanup and CI integration. Based in New York, he’s comfortable bridging academic research and production engineering for safety-critical domains like self-driving systems. An unexpected strength is his history of applying neural-network augmentation to classical PDE models, blending ML with traditional simulation to boost fidelity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Biochemistry, Biochemistry at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical , Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
water10
proteus10
modeling-tool9
simulation9
power-systems9
verification9
python8
unstructured8
validation8
smithy8
parallel7
perl7
parallel-computing7
root-finding7
scientific-computing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zhang-alvin/testRepoCopy
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:219 PRs, 2 branches, 64 comments in 4 months
erdc/proteus_cleanupTest
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
test repo for mirror pushes after bfg cleanup
Contributions:8 PRs, 1911 pushes, 1079 branches in 12 days
test-repo
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