Lester Ingber
CEO at Physical Studies Institute LLC
Warrenton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolLester Ingber is a multidisciplinary scientist and CEO with a six-decade career publishing 100+ papers and books across theoretical nuclear physics, neuroscience, finance, optimization, combat analysis, and education. He founded and leads the Physical Studies Institute, developed widely used algorithms such as Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) and PATHINT/PATHTREE, and has applied statistical mechanics to markets, neocortical interactions (EEG/memory), and combat simulation. Lester has bridged academia, government, and industry as PI on high-performance computing projects (including hybrid classical–quantum work) and commercial roles in trading R&D, producing practical codebases hosted on GitHub. His work uniquely ties deep theoretical tools (path integrals, nonlinear stochastic systems) to deployed applications like options pricing, risk copulas, and EEG-based models of cognition. An accomplished sensei and educator, he also brings an unusual blend of physical training, pedagogy, and long-form peer review experience to interdisciplinary research.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma college prep, Diploma college prep at Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS)University of California, San DiegoCalifornia Institute of TechnologyTheoretical Nuclear Physics, Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Niels Bohr Institute
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
c-language10
doh10
proxy10
dns-proxy10
dns10
dns-over-https10
adblock9
simulated-annealing9
privacy8
golang8
google-chrome6
authenticator6
open-source6
octave6
cookie5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ingber/adaptive-simulated-annealing
Apr 2013 - Jan 2021
Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) is a C-language code developed to statistically find the best global fit of a nonlinear constrained non-convex cost-function over a D-dimensional space.
Contributions:13 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 10 months
c-languagesimulated-annealing
ingber/COVID-19
Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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