Evan Mayer
Doctoral Student at University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Mayer is a doctoral student in astronomy and astrophysics with nine years of engineering and software experience bridging lab hardware, flight payloads, and simulation-driven systems. He develops flight software and integrates payloads for balloon-borne terahertz instrumentation while contributing to intensity-mapping experiments that combine radio observation and infrared-optical simulation. Previously he built and optimized high-performance vehicle dynamics simulations and flight-related algorithms at Raytheon, leading Agile teams and HPC Monte Carlo studies. Evan brings hands-on cryostat and millimeter-wave optical system design experience from the University of Chicago and Steward Observatory, pairing practical machining and cryogenics work with object-oriented C++ and Python engineering. Colleagues rely on him to take ambiguous, instruction-free problems from prototype to repeatable, testable systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), with Honors, Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), with Honors, Physics at University of Chicago
English, Spanish
Github Skills (71)
rtl-sdr10
signal-processing10
cross-correlation10
cusignal10
driver10
filterbank10
fourier-transform9
astronomy9
python9
rapids9
software-defined-radio9
gpu7
cudnn7
simulations7
cupy7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
evanmayer/evanmayer.github.io
Aug 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
evanmayer/hotspot
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
Code for simulating and driving a cable-driven parallel robot for mapping beams on surfaces.
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 387 pushes in 3 years 3 months
roboticscableparallelsimulationparallel-robot
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