Hong Zhang
Principal Applied Mathematics Specialist
Lemont, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHong Zhang is a Principal Applied Mathematics Specialist with 13 years of experience building high-performance mathematical software and scalable scientific ML for DOE-scale science at Argonne National Laboratory. He combines deep numerical analysis and theoretical rigor with practical engineering for multi-core and accelerated architectures, contributing core innovations to PETSc, PNODE, FATODE, and CAMS. As co-PI on multi-lab projects, he bridges domains from climate modeling to fusion and high-energy physics while pioneering LLM-driven workflows and retrieval-augmented generation for scientific applications. Known for making complex algorithms usable, portable, and composable, he also mentors at GPU Hackathons and organizes conferences—bringing both community leadership and hands-on code to extreme-scale computational challenges.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (63)
petsc10
gitlab10
colorize9
autocomplete9
compile9
boost9
python8
deep-learning8
latex8
gpu8
machine-learning8
typesetting7
scientific-machine-learning7
neural-network6
automatic-differentiation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
caidao22/pnode
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
A Python library for training neural ODEs.
Contributions:2 releases, 35 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 4 months
automatic-differentiationdeep-learningscientific-machine-learning
caidao22/caidao22.github.io
Dec 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:33 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 3 months
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