Bo Xin
Adaptive Optics Scientist at Giant Magellan Telescope
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBo Xin is an Adaptive Optics Scientist with a decade of experience designing, modeling, and optimizing large astronomical observatory systems, currently contributing to the Giant Magellan Telescope. He brings deep expertise in active optics, wavefront sensing, and system-level performance analysis developed across key roles at Rubin Observatory and Purdue, including leadership during LSST commissioning. His background spans practical lab instrumentation, production software for interferometric data reduction, and algorithm development for wide-field wavefront sensing—skills that bridge optical, mechanical, and structural engineering. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in particle physics, he pairs rigorous data-analysis instincts from high-energy experiments with hands-on observatory systems engineering to probe dark matter and dark energy through precision image quality metrics. An often-overlooked strength is his history of building end-to-end pipelines and test benches that validated both hardware and software before deployment.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at Liaoning University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (36)
wavefront10
obs9
xml-schema9
hyphenation8
latex8
telescope8
macros8
tex8
sal7
xml7
optical-flow6
calibration6
tilt5
stereo5
controller5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bxin/cwfs
Sep 2015 - Sep 2020
Curvature Wavefront Sensing (CWFS) software
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 years
wavefront-sensingcurvaturesensingwavefront
bxin/SDSS_PSF_paper
Nov 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:83 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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