Jacob Pierce
Physics PhD Candidate
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Pierce is a Physics PhD candidate at UCLA with nine years of experience developing and running large-scale particle-in-cell plasma simulations to advance laser-plasma acceleration, nonlinear plasma optics, and astrophysical plasma studies. He combines theoretical design of structured laser pulses with practical GPU-accelerated PIC code development and PDE solvers that suppress numerical instabilities, enabling high-fidelity simulations on thousands of MPI ranks and multi-terabyte outputs. Jacob builds efficient postprocessing libraries to extract insight from massive datasets and pursues first-principles, reduced models informed by data-driven discovery. His background spans experimental and computational work from the University of Chicago to Argonne, and he’s uniquely fluent in both algorithmic innovation and hands-on implementation of CUDA-parallelized plasma algorithms.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Hopkins SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Applied Mathematics at The University of Chicago
English
Github Skills (7)
data-handling10
jupyter-notebook3
hdf1
python1
visualization1
data-analysis1
matplotlib1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jacobpierce1/osiris-suite
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
OSIRIS data handling library
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 3 years 2 months
data-handlinghandlingdataosiris
jacobpierce1/deadlayer_analysis
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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