Eric Korpela
Research Astronomer at University of California
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Korpela is a research astronomer and seasoned software developer with 23 years of experience leading space- and ground-based studies of the interstellar medium and instrumental work in far- and extreme-UV astronomy. Based at UC Berkeley, he has been a principal member of the SETI group and project scientist for SETI@home, contributing to the world's largest volunteer distributed computing effort and to BOINC code parsing improvements. He has participated in nine orbital and one suborbital missions sponsored by NASA, DOD, and international partners, and authored over 80 publications. Equally at home writing C/C++ and Fortran as designing radio instrumentation, he also consults on niche forensic data recovery problems involving legacy systems and RAID reconstruction.
22 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Astronomy, Ph.D., Astronomy at University of California, BerkeleyB.S., Astronomy, Physics, B.S., Astronomy, Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
xml-parsing10
data-parsing9
xml8
scientific-computing8
cplus7
cpp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BOINC/boinc
Jun 2003 - May 2020
Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 479 commits, 7 PRs in 17 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on modifications to the `lib/parse.C` and `lib/parse.h` files, adding and modifying functions related to XML record extraction and tag matching. They introduced the `extract_xml_record()` function, made changes related to constant parameters, and updated tag matching functionality to handle various tag formats. Their work suggests a focus on parsing and manipulating data within the BOINC project, likely for data processing and related back-end logic.
pythonsciencehigh-performance-computingphpscientific-computing
SETIguy/jupyter_notebooks
Jun 2016 - May 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
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