Gregory Ashton
Associate Professor
Waverley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGregory Ashton is an Associate Professor and leading expert in gravitational-wave inference with 12 years of research experience translating black hole and neutron star mergers into physical insights. He co-chairs the OzGrav Inference Program and the 100+ member LIGO parameter-estimation group, overseeing characterization of every observed merger and contributing substantially to LIGO science. As lead developer of the Bilby Bayesian inference library, he organized a 25-person international team to make Bilby the LIGO collaborations’ primary analysis workhorse since 2020 and drove its use in every major recent event. His work spans algorithm development (including GPU-enhanced stochastic samplers) and production-scale software for petaFLOP searches, reflected in 24 peer-reviewed papers with 13 first-author publications and an ADS h-index of 11. Based in Waverley, England, he blends deep theoretical astrophysics with pragmatic, reproducible software engineering and has mentored PhD and undergraduate researchers across several institutions. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to move tools from prototype to production in large international collaborations, ensuring research impact at scale.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at University of SouthamptonFerndown upper school sixth form
Github Skills (81)
python10
wave10
forge10
statistic10
mcmc10
gtk10
monte-carlo10
conda-forge10
qt10
pycuda10
sampling10
data-visualization10
data-science10
conda10
astrophysics10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GregoryAshton/PH3010_advanced_python
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:76 commits, 5 PRs, 51 pushes in 5 months
gw-odw/odw-2023
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
Tutorials for GW Open Data Workshop, 2023
Contributions:21 PRs, 82 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
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