Christopher Woods
AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Lead at University of Bristol
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Woods is an AI supercomputing infrastructure lead at the University of Bristol, responsible for the Isambard-AI and Isambard3 installations and the operational launch of next-generation campus-scale supercomputers. With 12+ years bridging computational chemistry, HPC and research software engineering, he previously built and led Bristol’s central RSE group and was an early EPSRC RSE Fellow who helped found the national Society of RSE. He’s a hands-on developer who created a C++/Python molecular simulation framework (Sire) and co-founded BioSimSpace, both maintained by the OpenBioSim community, demonstrating deep domain expertise from laptops to national supercomputers. Christopher combines strong software-architecture and testing practice with advanced physics, Monte Carlo sampling and parallel programming skills across C++, Python and R. He brings rare cross-cutting experience running research teams, procuring and operating HPC platforms, and translating algorithm research into production-grade simulation software. Colleagues value him for turning complex scientific requirements into scalable, maintainable infrastructure and tooling that accelerates research impact.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physical Chemistry, PhD, Physical Chemistry at University of Southampton
Thai
Github Skills (73)
computational-physics10
interoperability10
python10
computational-chemistry10
computational-biology10
javascript10
git-repository10
molecular-simulation10
plugin-architecture10
authorization10
simulation10
reproducible-research10
camp10
visualize10
journal9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
metawards/MetaWardsData
Mar 2020 - May 2021
This repository contains all of the data (e.g. input parameters, etc.) for the MetaWards project. This separates the data needed for a model run from the code
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 1 month
input-parameters
CCPBioSim/python-workshop
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
A repository containing the build steps for the ccpbiosim workshop on Python
Contributions:54 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
pythonworkshop-materials
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