Cosmin Deaconu
Research Assistant Professor at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCosmin Deaconu is a particle astrophysicist and research assistant professor at the University of Chicago with a decade of experience designing and analyzing detectors that hunt for elusive high-energy particles. He has led and contributed to multiple experiments—from radio detection of ultra‑high‑energy neutrinos (ANITA, GNO, ARA) to directional dark‑matter efforts (DMTPC)—combining hardware, signal processing, and analysis software. Based in Chicago, he brings an experimentalist’s rigor tempered by a strong computational background from Stanford and MIT, making him comfortable bridging instrument development and data‑driven discovery. Notably, his work spans cold‑region radio techniques and tabletop detector projects, reflecting an appetite for tackling problems across extreme scales.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Physics (with Honors), Computer Science (Minor), BS, Physics (with Honors), Computer Science (Minor) at Stanford University
Spanish, Romanian, English
Github Skills (104)
detectors10
monte-carlo10
neutrino10
geometry10
spectrum10
simulation10
client-library9
statistics9
data-access9
parallel9
python9
ara9
cling9
visualization9
subset9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RNO-G/rno-g-image-builder
Feb 2020 - May 2024
omap image builder
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 3 months
imageimage-builderbuilder
anitaNeutrino/UCorrelator
Mar 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:473 commits, 128 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
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