Brendan Tracey
Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Tracey is a Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind with 13 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and computational science. He progressed through research roles at DeepMind and the Santa Fe Institute after earning a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford, bringing deep expertise in physics-informed computation and scalable research engineering. Brendan blends hands-on systems work with research rigor, contributing maintainability and structural improvements to open-source CFD codebases like SU2. He excels at translating complex scientific models into reliable, production-ready software and mentoring teams through that transition. Based in London, he combines academic depth with industry impact, often focusing on the subtle engineering changes that make large codebases easier to extend and audit. A detail-oriented collaborator, he’s comfortable working across code, models, and experiments to ship reproducible, high-impact research.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at University of RochesterDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
computational-fluid-dynamics10
cfengine10
xml-comments10
c-language10
cfc10
cprogramming-language10
cfml10
maintainability9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
su2code/SU2
Aug 2013 - Feb 2015
SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multiphysics Simulation and Design
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:197 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brendan made several contributions focused on the core CFD code, specifically adding comments to the `SU2_CFD.cpp` file to enhance readability. They also made changes to the `solver_direct_mean.cpp` file. Furthermore, the user re-indented the `SU2_CFD.cpp` file and simplified the config file logic. The majority of the changes involve the internal structure and maintainability of the code base, including restructuring code blocks.
multiphysicssimulationcfdc-plus-plusoptimization
gonum/blas
Jan 2014 - Feb 2017
A BLAS implementation for Go [DEPRECATED]
Contributions:275 commits, 50 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 years 2 months
blasgo
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