Chad Burdyshaw
Manager High Performance Research Computing at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Signal Mountain, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChad Burdyshaw is a computational scientist and engineering leader with 11+ years advancing high-performance computing, modeling, and optimization across aerospace, energy, and biomedical research. Currently managing High Performance Research Computing at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, he blends algorithm design, numerical methods, and HPC operations to accelerate scientific discovery and AI/ML workflows on both on-prem and cloud platforms. He has a track record of building non-heuristic tools—such as distributed MICA for gene network inference—and optimizing codes for many-core architectures to unlock orders-of-magnitude performance gains. A PhD-trained physicist and computer scientist, Chad excels at translating complex research needs into scalable infrastructure, training programs, and practical solutions that reduce barriers to scientific throughput. He enjoys exploring big ideas in cognition and information, and brings a rare mix of deep technical craft, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and operational leadership to research computing.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computational Engineering, Ph.D. Computational Engineering at The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Central Washington UniversityM.S. Computational Engineering, M.S. Computational Engineering at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (33)
energy9
correlation-coefficient9
climate-science9
correlation8
snl-applications8
renewable-energy8
earth8
climate-change8
fortran8
reproducible-research8
bioinformatics8
reproducible-science8
slurm7
singularity7
climate-model7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UTennessee-JICS/LACE
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 1 month
ChadBurdyshaw/TAG
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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