Austin Baird
Algorithm Engineer at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAustin Baird is an Algorithm Engineer and Research Affiliate at the University of Washington with 11 years of experience building high-performance simulation and modeling platforms for healthcare and national security. He combines a PhD in Applied Mathematics with hands-on modern C++ and Python engineering to deliver deployable, resilient systems—from BioGears physiological engine leadership to AI-driven healthcare simulations and event-camera vision algorithms. Austin has repeatedly led multidisciplinary teams, won millions in government research funding, and translated clinical collaboration into validated models and production build systems. He is as comfortable authoring grant proposals and course curricula as he is implementing CI/CD, build automation, and extensible data infrastructures. Notably, his work often connects wet-lab data to computational frameworks (e.g., tissue mechanics databases and MoHSES) to make models directly useful to clinicians and decision-makers.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (7)
open-access8
journal8
academia7
visualizer7
creative-commons6
visualization4
data-visualization3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BioGearsEngine/Engine
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Open source code for the BioGears Engine.
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
ajbaird/core
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Repository for libbiogears and all core utilities
Contributions:12 PRs, 117 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.