Ken Herner
Applications Physicist III
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Herner is an Applications Physicist III with nine years of experience translating experimental high-energy physics needs into scalable software, data analysis, and distributed computing solutions. Based at Fermilab, he leads DUNE-US software and computing efforts, has steered experiment services and production teams, and represents collaborations on bodies like the OSG Council and IRIS-HEP. His technical breadth spans triggering and detector electronics to high-throughput grid and cloud services, and he contributes to major projects such as DUNE, Rubin Observatory data management, and DES transient follow-up. A PhD-trained physicist who began by co-leading trigger and MET work in Higgs searches, he pairs hands-on algorithm and systems development with strategic program leadership. Notably, he brings a sustained record of bridging experimental instrumentation challenges with robust computing infrastructure across multiple flagship collaborations.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at University of Notre DameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Stony Brook University
French, Serbian
Github Skills (78)
science10
open-science10
container10
census10
removal10
topology10
signature10
grid10
code-library9
astronomy9
meteorology9
energy9
measurement9
data-management9
pipeline8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SSantosLab/gw_workflow
Jun 2018 - Mar 2025
Workflow for image processing
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 88 pushes in 6 years 10 months
image-processingimageworkflow
kherner/topology
Dec 2018 - Mar 2023
Site and Resource topology data for the Open Science Grid
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 3 months
sciencetopologyopen-sciencegrid
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