Hugh Carson
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHugh Carson is a Senior Applied Scientist with a PhD in Computational Science and Engineering from MIT and an M.Eng. from Cambridge, bringing deep expertise in computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, error estimation, mesh adaptivity and optimization. He has applied this academic rigor across industry roles at Amazon, Prime Air and AWS, transitioning from flight controls and modeling to design and simulation of quantum computing devices. Known for bridging applied mathematics with machine learning and scientific computation, he focuses on green energy and physics-based simulation workflows that scale to production. Based in Cambridge, MA, Hugh pairs hands-on research experience with practical product impact and an appetite for challenging multidisciplinary problems—outside work he channels the same problem-solving drive into cycling, sailing and windsurfing.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Aerospace and Aerothermal Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Aerospace and Aerothermal Engineering at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (55)
computational-science10
hpc10
parallel-computing10
finite-element-analysis10
c-library10
cpp10
amr10
multiphysics10
scalable10
scientific-computing10
assembly9
formatting9
unicode9
printf8
floating-point8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/palace
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
3D finite element solver for computational electromagnetics
Contributions:248 reviews, 72 commits, 81 PRs in 1 month
aws-cqc/DeviceLayout.jl
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Julia package for computer-aided design of quantum integrated circuits
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 1 branch in 10 days
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