Brian Gunney
Computational Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Gunney is a computational scientist with 15+ years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, applying Ph.D.-level expertise in aerospace engineering and scientific computing to large-scale simulation and modeling problems. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends deep research instincts with practical code and algorithm development for high-performance computing environments. His academic foundation from the University of Michigan underpins a career focused on numerics, physics-informed computation, and transforming complex theory into reproducible software. Outside of research, he is also a published novelist—author of the historical fantasy Dragon's Ridge—bringing a rare creative storytelling sensibility to technical communication and interdisciplinary collaboration. Colleagues know him for rigor, long-term project stewardship, and an ability to bridge domain science with production-grade computational solutions.
15 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing at University of MIchigan,Ann Arbor
English, Vietnamese, French
Github Skills (31)
fortran10
hpc10
hpc-applications10
parallel-computing10
cpp10
amr10
scientific-computing10
json9
python9
data-management9
yaml9
kubernetes8
simulation8
simulator8
parallel7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
llnl/SAMRAI
Jun 2011 - May 2015
Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Application Infrastructure - a scalable C++ framework for block-structured AMR application development
Contributions:1411 commits in 3 years 11 months
cpphpcscientific-computingparallel-computingadaptive-mesh-refinement
gunney1/gspack
May 2023 - Nov 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
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