Summary
Davide Cieri is a Staff Scientist and particle physicist with 11 years of experience building FPGA-based algorithms and end-to-end simulation frameworks for Phase-II upgrades of ATLAS and CMS at CERN. He combines hands-on firmware implementation (VHDL on Xilinx Ultrascale+/Virtex/Kintex) with C++/Python algorithm development and strong DevOps practices (git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions), and has created tooling like Hog to streamline HDL-on-git workflows. As a manager and mentor he has led multiple hardware and physics groups, supervised PhD students, and presented work at international conferences. His background blends rigorous academic training (PhD, University of Bristol) with practical demonstrators for real-time track finding, reflecting a rare mix of research leadership and production-grade firmware engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 with hounors, Master's degree, Physics, 110/110 with hounors at Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Elementary Particle Physics at University of Bristol
Italian, English, German, Spanish