Leighton Wilson
Senior Staff Engineer at Cerebras
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolLeighton Wilson is a Senior Staff Engineer and HPC solutions specialist with a decade of experience accelerating scientific and defense-grade computing workloads. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of Michigan and has delivered large performance wins—such as a 500% speedup and 40% memory reduction for biomolecular solvation software and a 150%+ scaling improvement for AMBER RISM—by designing O(N) algorithms and GPU-enabled parallel implementations. At Northrop Grumman he led C++ architecture refactors and mentoring in software engineering, and at Cerebras he now focuses on adapting HPC applications to novel hardware architectures. Comfortable bridging deep numerical analysis and production engineering, he brings both academic rigor and practical systems leadership to high-performance computing challenges. An early commitment to multidisciplinary problems is evident from work spanning biophysics, electromagnetics, and materials computation.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Scientific Computing at University of MichiganMaster of Arts (M.A.), Mathematics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Mathematics at The University of Alabama
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Github Skills (24)
poisson10
parallelization10
biophysics10
integral10
hermite10
chemistry10
bioinformatics10
equation10
structural-biology9
computation9
docking9
opencl9
cuda8
julia8
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lwwilson1/mesh_routines
Jun 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
lwwilson1/TABIPB
Jun 2016 - Aug 2020
This TABIPB repo serves as a submodule to APBS, and also works as a standalone distribution.
Contributions:15 PRs, 67 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 3 months
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