Anders Petersson
Computational Mathematician
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnders Petersson is a computational mathematician with 12+ years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, specializing in scalable numerical methods for wave propagation and high-performance simulation. He leads efforts in quantum optimal control—developing software to shape microwave pulses for quantum computers—and in optimizing the SW4 seismic code for peta- and exascale systems. His background spans academia and national labs, with a PhD in Numerical Analysis and prior work in mesh generation, CFD, and open-source tools like the Xcog mesh generator. Anders thrives in interdisciplinary teams that pair domain specialists with software engineers to turn mathematical methods into production-grade code, and he blends deep theory with hands-on development for large-scale computational science.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Numerical Analysis, Ph.D., Numerical Analysis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
fortran, c++, Swedish, English
Github Skills (41)
geoscience10
simulation10
python10
windows10
linux10
hpc10
condition10
boundaries10
grid10
geodesy10
surface10
macos10
configurations10
package-manager10
geophysics10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geodynamics/sw4
Feb 2014 - Dec 2022
SW4 (Seismic Waves, 4th order) implements substantial capabilities for 3-D seismic modeling, with a free surface condition on the top boundary, absorbing super-grid conditions on the far-field boundaries, and an arbitrary number of point force and/or point moment tensor source terms.
Contributions:3 releases, 15 reviews, 420 commits in 8 years 11 months
boundariespythonsimulationmoment-tensortensor
geodynamics/sw4lite
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Testing numerical kernels in SW4
Contributions:25 commits, 12 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 4 months
testingkernels
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