Jerry Tang
Quantum Optics Physics Ph.D Candidate
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJerry Tang is a Quantum Optics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto with nine years of interdisciplinary experience bridging experimental physics, computational electromagnetics, and software engineering. He co-authored work on differentiable FDTD methods for photonic inverse design and presented those minimal-memory techniques at CLEO and SPIE, demonstrating a rare combination of hands-on simulator development and optimization research. His internships span Harvard’s Capasso group, TRIUMF’s CERN-adjacent projects, and distributed systems work at Waterloo, reflecting fluency in C/C++, GPU acceleration, numerical methods, and scalable backend services. Jerry has shipped production-grade software in industry—maintaining microservices and web scrapers for hundreds of thousands of users—while also building physics-grade 1D–3D FDTD and diffraction simulators and ML frameworks for lens design. Based in Toronto, he pairs rigorous academic inquiry with practical engineering instincts, often trading between low-level performance tuning and higher-level algorithmic innovation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of TorontoBachelor's degree, Honours Computer Science and Joint Honours Physics, Bachelor's degree, Honours Computer Science and Joint Honours Physics at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English, ShanghaineseGithub contributions (5)
InnKeeper513/minecraft_clone
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:96 commits in 3 months
InnKeeper513/personnalWebsite
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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