Eric Bellm
Research Associate Professor
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorEric Bellm is an astrophysicist and research associate professor at the University of Washington with 14 years of experience building ground- and space-based instruments and leading large survey operations. He currently leads Alert Production Science at the Rubin Observatory, where he blends scientific rigor with operational engineering to deliver real-time transient alerts at scale. Based in Seattle, he bridges observational astronomy, instrumentation, and software systems to turn high-volume data streams into actionable science. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs academic research with hands-on implementation—bringing survey design and production pipelines into operational maturity.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (118)
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astronomy10
transient10
ipython10
avro10
telescope10
maf10
classfile10
census10
square10
simulation10
data-processing9
logic9
prettify9
spin9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lsst-dm/dmtn-118
May 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
lsst/rtn-008
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
LSST Processing of Gravitational Wave TOO Data in the Early Operations Era
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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