Christine Simpson
Assistant Computational Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristine Simpson is an assistant computational scientist with over a decade of experience building and scaling parallel simulation codes to probe galaxy formation, cosmic rays, and large multi-terabyte datasets. She has led development of high-performance C/C++ and FORTRAN code that runs on hundreds to thousands of cores, enabling order-of-magnitude resolution improvements and faster runtimes for hydrodynamic and supernova modeling. Her work spans hands-on simulation platform design, threaded Python data analysis, and mentoring students, resulting in publishable astrophysical predictions and novel insights into galactic outflows and satellite star formation. Based in Chicago, she blends deep academic training (PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics) with production-grade HPC engineering, and is known for turning compute-heavy theory into reproducible, scalable science.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Astronomy, Master's degree, Astronomy at Wesleyan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Wellesley College
Github Skills (20)
refinement10
multiprocessing10
scripting9
simulation9
mesh9
parallel-python9
hpc-applications9
throughput8
multicore8
parallel8
rdma8
infiniband7
load-balancing7
python7
hpc6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
architvasan/MLDocking_Dragon
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
cms21/fusion_compute
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Scripts to deploy fusion application on DOE systems with Globus Flows
Contributions:37 PRs, 84 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
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