Evan 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
Software-defined radio complex correlator. FX architecture: Polyphase filterbank Fourier transform spectrometer and cross-correlation, powered by GPU-accelerated, concurrent processing.
Contributions:109 commits, 2 PRs, 82 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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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