Gus Hart
Professor at Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolGus Hart is a Professor of Computational Materials Science with 11+ years of experience in academia, currently leading research and teaching at Brigham Young University after an earlier faculty role at Northern Arizona University. He combines deep physics training (PhD, UC Davis) with expertise in algorithms and high-throughput modeling to tackle materials discovery and simulation at scale. Known for translating complex theoretical methods into practical computational workflows, he bridges fundamental research and reproducible, data-driven materials design. His interdisciplinary undergraduate background in Japanese and physics hints at a capacity for cross-cultural collaboration and broad intellectual curiosity. Based in Provo, Utah, he sustains a long-term academic program that trains the next generation of computational scientists while advancing algorithmic tools for materials problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science (BS), Japanese and Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Japanese and Physics at Brigham Young University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
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msg10
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julia10
dft10
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routines10
folding10
machine-learning10
grids10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
msg-byu/autoGR
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
Generating k-point grids with the best folding ratio or fewest irreducible k-points for a given density
Contributions:1 review, 33 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 10 months
splinesgridsratiopointinterpolation
glwhart/MinkowskiReduction.jl
Mar 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:10 releases, 87 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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