James Leblanc
Co-Founder at Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Leblanc is a physicist-turned-entrepreneur and academic who builds next-generation algorithms for correlated electron systems, tackling problems considered intractable for both classical and quantum computers. As Co-Founder of Compute Everything and an Associate Professor at Memorial University, he combines 11+ years of research experience in many-body and condensed matter physics with hands-on computational innovation. His background includes postdoctoral work funded by the Simons Foundation and research at premier institutes like Max-Planck, focusing on DCA-DMFT methods, pseudogap phenomenology, and graphene interactions. Known for translating deep theoretical insight into practical algorithms, he is unusually fluent at bridging cutting-edge physics with deployable software solutions. Based in St. John’s, NL, he is building tools that aim to move previously theoretical advances toward real-world computation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Physics, Ph.D, Physics at University of Guelph
German
Github Skills (11)
high-energy-physics3
fenics3
particle-physics3
physics3
condensed-matter-physics2
mechanics2
petsc1
quantum-mechanics1
finite-element-analysis1
computational-physics1
multiphysics1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mdburke11/torchami
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
torchami: Library for Algorithmic Matsubara Integration built using libtorch
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 year 9 months
jpfleblanc/prog_scripts
Apr 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
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