Elena Zhivun
Postdoctoral Researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElena Zhivun is a postdoctoral researcher and engineer with 11 years of experience building low-level firmware, drivers, and embedded test systems for large-scale scientific instruments. At Brookhaven National Laboratory she led firmware and driver development for the ATLAS silicon strip readout (≈69,000 channels, 5 TB/s), wrote simulation and Python integration tools, and created a Linux network-over-PCIe driver for remote DAQ firmware updates. Her background in precision instrumentation—from UC Berkeley and UW‑Madison—includes FPGA-based modulators, ultralow-noise amplifier design, and rescuing legacy LabVIEW FPGA code to regain measurement fidelity. She favors modular, testable designs and has delivered automated test and web-based monitoring systems for Versal SoC prototypes now being deployed. Comfortable across hardware, firmware, and experiment software, she blends hands-on PCB/PCB-layout and mechanical design with production-quality software engineering. Based in Brookhaven, NY, she brings research rigor to operational, high-throughput detector systems and a knack for practical cost- and time-saving innovations like 3D‑printed assemblies.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, GPA 3.385, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, GPA 3.385 at UC Berkeley
English, German
Github Skills (10)
virtualbox7
storage6
vagrant5
development-kit5
closed4
xilinx4
javascript2
python1
encoding1
decoding1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lenazh/cs61as-quiz-system
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:17 PRs, 86 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
Mduchamp/cs61as-quiz-system
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 30 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
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