Justin Chang
SMTS Software System Design Engineer at AMD
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Chang is a computational scientist and software engineer with 10 years’ experience building high-performance scientific software across DOE labs, academia, and the oil & gas sector. He specializes in HPC, applied mathematics, and GPU-accelerated data center solutions, now shaping system design for AMD’s HPC software group. His career blends deep research (PhD in Civil Engineering, postdocs at Rice and NREL) with production-focused engineering at CGG and national labs, enabling him to translate complex numerical methods into scalable, performant code. Based in Houston, he brings both domain expertise in computational earth sciences and practical experience deploying GPU-centric solutions for large-scale workloads. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to bridge theoretical modeling and hands-on system design, making him effective at turning research prototypes into deployable software.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Civil Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Civil Engineering at University of HoustonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (23)
amdgpu9
partial8
python8
petsc8
derivative8
simulation8
primitive8
simulator7
differentiation7
automatic-differentiation7
read-the-docs6
hip6
documentation5
clang5
partial-differential-equations5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NatLabRockies/pfibs
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 months
jychang48/HPCTrainingExamples
Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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