Brian Mason
Scientist at National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Mason is an observational cosmologist and instrument scientist with over two decades of experience leading data reduction, calibration, and instrument development for major radio observatories. As ALMA Lead Data Reduction Manager and a key contributor to NGVLA design, he coordinates global processing and QA while shaping array configuration and total-power strategies. He has led geographically distributed, interdisciplinary projects for the Green Bank Telescope and managed validation testing and requirements for CASA and the ALMA pipeline. A prolific researcher and mentor, he has 75 refereed publications, extensive public speaking, and deep hands-on expertise in data analysis pipelines, numerical methods, and scientific software (IDL, C, MATLAB). Less obvious: he brings operational grit from field deployments—one year living in the Atacama running an interferometer—combining expedition-style problem solving with institutional leadership.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., physics, Ph.D., physics at University of PennsylvaniaB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at William & Mary
Spanish
Github Skills (1)
computer-vision6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bmason72/casapy
Mar 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
bmason72/ProTherm
Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
raspberry-piraspberrythermostathome-assistantprogrammable
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