Devin Short
Research Scientist Engineer Senior at UW Medical Cyclotron Facility
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevin Short is a research scientist-engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and maintaining particle accelerator systems and research infrastructure, currently keeping a 40-year-old medical cyclotron running reliably for clinical and research missions. He combines practical engineering—ultra-high vacuum, high voltage, cryogenics, RF electronics, and targetry—with software and data workflows to support isotope production, neutron therapy, and radiation effects testing under an exceptionally demanding beam schedule. Devin has prototyped novel instruments (including an atomic mass spectrometer used across many papers) and built data tools for social-science studies of scientific collaborations, reflecting a rare blend of hard experimental skill and humanities-informed analysis. As a PhD candidate in history of science researching climate-model development since 1960, he brings archival methods and computational parsing techniques to illuminate how scientific knowledge is created and preserved. Colleagues rely on him to navigate ambiguous, hazardous systems and translate domain complexity into reproducible experimental and data practices.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS Nuclear Chemistry, Master of Science - MS Nuclear Chemistry at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (58)
python10
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data-structures10
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data-analysis10
editor9
microsoft9
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typescript9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shortorian/bibliograph
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 181 commits, 127 pushes in 6 months
shortorian/shortorian.github.io
Jun 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:127 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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