Irwin Zaid
Director at See-Through Scientific
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIrwin Zaid is a director and entrepreneur based in Oxford who bridges academic leadership, deep technical expertise, and startup execution across computer science, physics, and biotech. As Director of Oxford Edge and Director of Studies in Computer Science at Christ Church, he combines programme leadership with hands-on teaching and research experience rooted in a D.Phil. in Theoretical Physics and a Junior Research Fellowship. He co-founded See-Through Scientific to build hardware for immunotherapy manufacturing, translating rigorous scientific training into practical devices. With 11 years of experience including a stint at Anaconda and notable open-source contributions to SciPy—where he helped enable CUDA support for the lambertw special function—he blends low-level C++/CUDA development with systems and mathematical insight. Colleagues describe him as equally at home steering institutional innovation and diving into numeric algorithm implementation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
D. Phil. in Theoretical Physics, D. Phil. in Theoretical Physics at University of OxfordBachelor of Computer Science, Honours, Bachelor of Computer Science, Honours at Carleton UniversityMaster of Science in Engineering Physics, Master of Science in Engineering Physics at Technische Universität München
Github Skills (6)
cuda10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
scientific-computing9
algorithms9
python8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scipy/scipy
Aug 2021 - Dec 2024
SciPy library main repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:176 reviews, 28 PRs, 427 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Irwin primarily focused on enhancing special C++ implementations, specifically making `lambertw` function work on CUDA. Their work included modifying special C++ code and integrating it with CUDA, including changes in `config.h`, `lambertw.h`, and `error.h`. Furthermore, the user was involved in adding clang-format formatting for special C++ files and translating specfun into C++.
scipypythonscientific-computing
izaid/scipy
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
SciPy library main repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 855 pushes, 65 branches in 1 year 1 month
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