Junchao Xia
Principal Scientific Developer at OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJunchao Xia is a Principal Scientific Developer with over a decade of experience translating physics-driven theory into high-performance scientific software for biomolecular simulation, cryo-EM, and NMR. Holding a PhD in condensed matter physics, he has led large-scale redevelopment efforts (notably converting a 100K-line MATLAB cryo-EM package to an optimized Python implementation) and built distributed and GPU-accelerated simulation frameworks used for free energy calculations and enhanced sampling. He combines deep expertise in algorithm development and numerical methods with hands-on proficiency in Python, C/C++, Fortran, and HPC/cluster orchestration. At institutions from Princeton to Temple and now Cadence Molecular Sciences, he has integrated academic rigor with production-grade engineering, including porting simulation tools to BOINC and XSEDE-scale resources. Known for mentoring researchers and shipping complex codebases, he brings a rare mix of theoretical insight and practical systems-level optimization.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics, Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics at Clark UniversityM.S. Condensed Matter Physics, M.S. Condensed Matter Physics at Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesB.S. Dielectric Physics, B.S. Dielectric Physics at Shandong UniversityM.S. Mathematical Finance, M.S. Mathematical Finance at Rutgers University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
random-walk10
particle10
high-energy-physics10
markov-model8
markov7
weighted7
phonetics4
x-plane4
eve-online3
gleam3
matlab3
nuke3
dm3
user-guide2
energy2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
junchaoxia/junchaoxia.github.io
Jul 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
ComputationalBiophysicsCollaborative/AsyncRE
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 19 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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