Glenn Richardson
Graduate Student Researcher
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGlenn Richardson is a PhD student and computational physicist at Yale specializing in simulation and detector modeling for rare-event experiments, with a decade of experience building high-performance simulation and DAQ tools. He develops charge collection algorithms and SiPM testing hardware for the nEXO collaboration and previously designed a GPU-friendly QED solver for the widely used WarpX Particle-in-Cell code at Berkeley Lab. His background blends physics and mathematics (UC Berkeley) with hands-on Monte Carlo and Geant4 integration for cryogenic detector models, giving him uncommon fluency across theory, simulation, and experimental hardware. A pragmatic coder who contributes to core open-source physics software, he favors practical, performant algorithms—he’s even opinionated about tabs over spaces and code clarity.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Yale University
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BLAST-WarpX/warpx
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
WarpX is an advanced electromagnetic & electrostatic Particle-In-Cell code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 159 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Glenn's commits primarily focus on implementing features related to a QED (Quantum Electrodynamics) algorithm within the WarpX code. They added conditional statements to activate the QED algorithm at specific points in the simulation and implemented function calls for QED half-pushes. Further contributions involved adding QED hybrid corrections, demonstrating their work on the core physics simulation logic. The user also made adjustments to parameters and file structures suggesting deeper interaction with the project's underlying functionalities.
physicselectromagneticlaserelectrostaticparticle
haruki-m/Physics
Apr 2016 - Jan 2022
Bottle rocket simulator and other physics stuff in Python
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 10 months
physicspythonsimulationsimulatorrocket
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