Davide Punzo
Scientific Software Developer at PUNZO DAVIDE
Montpellier, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDavide Punzo is a scientific software developer with 11 years' experience turning complex volumetric and astronomical datasets into fast, interactive visualization and analysis tools. Based in Montpellier, he combines low-level performance engineering (C++, CUDA/OpenCL, multi-threaded rendering) with modern web and desktop front-ends (React, WebGL/WebGPU, Qt) to deliver usable HPC-enabled applications. His work spans academia and industry—from leading SlicerAstro development for 3D Slicer to contributing segmentation and visualization features to the widely used Cornerstone3D medical imaging library. Davide’s projects emphasize pragmatic performance trade-offs and reproducible scientific workflows, enabling domain experts to explore terabyte-scale data in real time. He frequently bridges research and production, having published peer-reviewed work across astronomy, medical imaging, physics and microscopy while retaining a hands-on focus on GPU-accelerated simulation and visualization. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate domain-specific analysis needs into robust, user-friendly tools that scale on GPUs and clusters.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Master's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Department of Physics, University of RomeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Groningen
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
medical-imaging10
image-segmentation10
javascript10
cornerstone10
dicom10
segmentation10
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cornerstonejs/cornerstone3D
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Cornerstone is a set of JavaScript libraries that can be used to build web-based medical imaging applications. It provides a framework to build radiology applications such as the OHIF Viewer.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 45 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Davide primarily contributed to the Cornerstone3D library, focusing on implementing and improving features related to medical image segmentation. Their work involved adding functionality for checking overlapping segments in DICOM SEG adapters, integrating crosshair tools with features like slab thickness and jump-to-slice functionality, as well as addressing several bugs related to the segmentation display. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved the source code by applying various fixes and optimizations.
javascriptweb-basedcornerstoneimagingohif
Punzo/Viewers
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
OHIF zero-footprint DICOM viewer and oncology specific Lesion Tracker, plus shared extension packages
Contributions:1 PR, 141 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years
trackerzerofootprintohifdicom
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