Bruno Alves
Physicist & Software Engineer at CERN
Geneva, Geneva, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBruno Alves is a physicist and software engineer with nine years of experience applying HPC, GPU computing and machine learning to particle-physics problems at CERN and École Polytechnique. He earned a highly praised PhD focused on CMS trigger algorithms and has repeatedly translated physics research into production-grade C++/Python code, including low-level GPU kernels and timing/geometry access for the widely used cms-sw/cmssw framework. At CERN he builds next-generation trigger reconstruction pipelines that boost data throughput through heterogeneous computing and ML, combining deep technical expertise with practical detector performance studies. His background spans astrophysics GANs, mass‑spectrometry experiments and teaching, reflecting an ability to move fluidly between hands-on instrumentation, data analysis and scalable software engineering. An award-winning researcher, he brings both rigorous scientific judgment and a knack for refactoring complex systems to run efficiently on modern accelerators.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Particle Physics PhD, Particle Physics PhD at École PolytechniqueMSc, Physics Engineering, MSc, Physics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (9)
gpu-programming10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cuda9
cms8
experiment8
cer8
cplus7
cpp7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cms-sw/cmssw
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
CMS Offline Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 37 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bruno's commits primarily involve modifications to C++ code within the `cms-sw/cmssw` repository, focusing on the Heterogeneous HGCal HEF Cell Positions Conditions. The changes include implementing access to cell positions on the GPU, initializing layer offsets, and updating timing. They also include the refactoring of kernel execution modules. These contributions suggest a focus on the low-level computational aspects of the CMS experiment software.
cmscernweb-appc-plus-plusbackbonejs
bfonta/KLUBAnalysis
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Generic KLUB analyzer
Contributions:578 pushes, 134 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 8 months
tlaanalysisgenerictype-checkeranalyzer
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