Austin Harris
Performance Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Harris is a performance engineer and computational scientist with nine years of experience optimizing scientific applications at national labs. Based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he applies a PhD in Astrophysics and an Engineering Physics BS to push high-performance computing workloads for research teams. His career includes postdoctoral positions at Berkeley Lab and Oak Ridge, giving him a strong foundation in both domain science and performant code. He excels at bridging complex scientific problems and scalable software performance tuning, often working close to HPC systems and workflows. Known for translating astrophysics-style modeling rigor into practical optimization strategies, he brings both research credibility and hands-on engineering to large-scale computational projects.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics at Murray State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (36)
simulation10
mesh10
cosmology10
routines10
pde10
gravity10
cpu10
mass-spectrometry10
orbital-mechanics10
astrophysics10
diffraction10
radiation10
hydrodynamics10
parallel9
cluster-computing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
starkiller-astro/XNet
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
A nuclear reaction network code for astrophysical applications
Contributions:123 commits, 20 PRs, 137 pushes in 3 years 5 months
ECP-Astro/chimera2castro
Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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