Lei Shi
Software Engineer at Google
Short Hills, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Shi is a software engineer at Google with 13 years of experience combining high-performance computing, scientific research, and production software engineering. He brings deep expertise in Python, C++, Fortran, and Linux from a PhD in Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at Princeton and a track record of developing and optimizing large-scale simulation codes for HPC systems like Edison, Cori, and Titan. Lei led major projects such as the Gyro-kinetic Toroidal Code (GTC), introduced modern code management and testing practices, and coordinated GPU optimizations with industry and national lab partners. He founded the Synthetic Diagnostics Platform and an ECEI diagnostic toolkit, building Python-C integrations and performance-focused tooling that supported multiple national labs. Based in Short Hills, NJ, he blends rigorous theoretical research with pragmatic engineering—often improving developer productivity and reproducibility in scientific software, not just raw simulation performance.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Research Assistant, Plasma physics, Research Assistant, Plasma physics at 北京大学Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (29)
synthetic9
fusion9
batch8
dependency-resolution8
python8
diagnostics8
luigi8
scenarios8
visualization7
ide7
orchestration-framework7
hadoop7
scheduling7
workflow-management7
scientific-computing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LeiShi/Synthetic-Diagnostics-Platform
Mar 2013 - Apr 2020
Contributions:480 commits, 29 PRs, 107 pushes in 7 years 1 month
pythondevelopingfusionsyntheticplasma
LeiShi/Docs
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
deep-learningthesismachine-learning
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