Francisco Benavides
Professor at Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Benavides is a Ph.D. computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer with 12 years of experience bridging academia and industry from Costa Rica. As a post-graduate professor he teaches mathematics for economics, computing, and pure mathematics while maintaining a strong research and applied development portfolio. His background spans scientific computing, risk modeling for banking, large-scale numerical simulation for petrophysics, and designing high-performance scripting languages for slot-game simulation and optimization. He has implemented methods to solve systems with tens of millions of degrees of freedom on commodity hardware and introduced novel game metrics and multi-objective optimization using differential evolution. Known for translating deep mathematical insight into practical software, he has earned recognition such as the SPE award for petrophysics research. Fluent across C++ and applied numerical methods, he combines rigorous theory with production-ready implementations that accelerate experimentation and decision-making.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Scientific Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Scientific Computing at Universidade Federal FluminenseBachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad de Costa Rica
Spanish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (38)
python-development9
packaging9
virtualenv9
pip9
python8
pipfile8
shell6
cli6
devkit6
package-manager5
dependency-management4
dependency-manager4
async4
rails4
server4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fbenavides69/control-escolar
Dec 2013 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years 3 months
fbenavides69/fbenavides69
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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