Summary
Kyle Miller is an R&D Staff Engineer and physicist with a decade of experience applying high-performance computing to experimental and computational problems in plasma physics, acoustics, and condensed matter. He holds a PhD from UCLA and has published as first author on topics ranging from laser–plasma interactions to nonlinear acoustic propagation, bringing rigorous, verifiable research practices into production-grade code. At the Laboratory for Laser Energetics he built performant simulation tools for laser–plasma instabilities and structured light evolution, and now develops next-generation HPC features in C++, Fortran, and Python for optical design products. Known for bridging hands-on experimental work with scalable software, he mentors students and turns complex physics into reproducible computational pipelines. An interesting detail: his background spans both field experiments and accelerator-based diagnostics (PDV), giving him uncommon cross-domain insight into measurement-driven modeling.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Science (MS) Physics, Master of Science (MS) Physics at Brigham Young University
Spanish