Gavin Niendorf
Graduate Research Assistant
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Niendorf is a PhD candidate in Elementary Particle Physics at Cornell University with nine years of computational research and engineering experience across high energy physics and defense projects. He develops high-performance, parallel particle-tracking software (C++20/CUDA) in collaboration with Princeton and UCSD and contributes to CERN analyses measuring Higgs boson properties. Gavin’s background spans ML-driven experimental work—coauthoring a JHEP paper for LDMX and building classification models used by that collaboration—to DARPA-funded physical system modeling at Systems & Technology Research. He combines rigorous physics training from UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies with practical software engineering in production-like HPC environments. Notably, he bridges domain science and low-level performance tuning, turning physics-driven requirements into scalable GPU implementations.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Minor in Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Minor in Statistics at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (65)
cms10
backbonejs10
edtech10
sum10
raytracing10
pypi10
simulation10
cockpit10
lpc9
hugo-theme9
optimization9
ansible-collections9
propagation9
rstudio9
modeling9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GNiendorf/tracepy
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Ray Tracing and Optical Design in Python
Contributions:4 releases, 105 commits, 40 PRs in 11 months
raypythonpropagationtracingray-tracing
GNiendorf/TrackLooper
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:142 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
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