Dean Howarth
Software Engineer at Caltech
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Howarth is a software engineer and computational physicist with a decade of experience building high-performance lattice QCD codes and GPU-accelerated numerical libraries. He bridges deep theoretical research—AdS/CFT, topology in Yang-Mills theories, and critical phi^4 boundary CFTs—with practical engineering, contributing key GPU Lanczos/Arnoldi eigensolvers and a deflated multigrid fermion inverter that speeds workflows 3x–10x. An active QUDA collaborator funded through national labs and now at Caltech, he writes multi-GPU/CPU code (MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC, CUDA) and is developing an Nc-agnostic stochastic Laplace-Heaviside suite. His work uniquely combines long-range interaction algorithms and quantum finite element implementations for nontrivial geometries, enabling large-scale lattice studies previously impractical. Based in Pasadena, he brings a rare mix of production-grade HPC software skills, open-source contributions, and deep theoretical insight from a PhD in theoretical and computational particle physics.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, MPhys, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at University of SussexDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical and Computational Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical and Computational Particle Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (74)
lattice10
hip10
gpu10
opencl10
multi-gpu10
infiniband10
cuda10
mpi10
petsc10
portability9
heterogeneous9
playing7
reduction7
giphy7
compression6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cpviolator/RPI-Advanced-Cyberinfrastructure
Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 10 pushes in 3 years
maddyscientist/AlgRemez
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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