Faustin Carter
Physicist at HRL Laboratories, LLC
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolFaustin Carter is a physicist with a decade of experience designing and instrumenting superconducting detectors and microwave electronics for cosmic microwave background experiments and advanced laboratories. Currently at HRL Laboratories after a postdoc at Argonne, he led detector development and coordination for the 16,000‑sensor SPT-3G camera, including an Antarctic deployment and cross‑institutional wafer testing. He combines hands‑on cryogenic fabrication and materials characterization with software tooling—authoring instrument automation and contributing enhancements to the widely used lmfit Python library for complex-valued model plotting and error propagation. Based in Santa Monica, he pairs deep experimental expertise with outreach and leadership, lecturing at the Adler Planetarium and serving on two Yale alumni boards. Notably, his background spans industrial engineering, national labs, and successful integration of hardware, firmware, and analysis software across large collaborations.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Physics, 3.97/4.0, Master of Science (MS), Physics, 3.97/4.0 at San Francisco State UniversitySemester Exchange Program, Semester Exchange Program at University of NewcastleDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Yale UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Engineering, 3.28/4.0, Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Engineering, 3.28/4.0 at Clarkson University
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Github Skills (15)
scipy10
python10
numpy10
modeling9
model-driven-development9
model-driven9
docstrings9
model-building9
git6
powershell6
conda6
ipv66
vpn6
bitbucket6
ssh6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lmfit/lmfit-py
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Non-Linear Least Squares Minimization, with flexible Parameter settings, based on scipy.optimize, and with many additional classes and methods for curve fitting.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Faustin primarily focused on enhancing the `lmfit-py` library, specifically addressing plotting of complex-valued models. They implemented functionalities to convert complex data for plotting, including options for real, imaginary, absolute, and angle representations. Furthermore, the user made significant improvements to error propagation, handling cases with zero magnitude and fixing related docstrings. Several updates were done to the `ModelResult` class to facilitate these new features.
linear-least-squaresminimizationpythonoptimizationadditional
SebastianBocquet/pygtc
Jul 2016 - Apr 2022
Make a sweet giant triangle confusogram (GTC) plot
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 215 commits in 5 years 9 months
trianglepythonplotdata-visualizationgtc
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