Malachi Phillips
Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolMalachi Phillips is a postdoctoral researcher and senior software developer at Sandia National Laboratories with a decade of experience building scientific software and researching multiphysics preconditioning. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC (3.93 GPA) under Paul Fischer and brings a rare blend of high-performance numerical methods and production-grade software engineering to national-lab scale problems. His background in chemical engineering and early computational chemistry work informs a practical, multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation challenges. At Sandia he splits time between research and hands-on software development, translating advanced preconditioning techniques into robust code used in large-scale simulations. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, he maintains an active professional web presence and emphasizes reproducible, well-engineered research software.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, BS in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at University of Oklahoma
English, Latin
Github Skills (50)
fluid10
computational-physics10
sem10
python10
sparse-matrix10
mpi10
cluster-computing10
hpc10
abstraction10
parallel-execution10
spectral10
petsc10
trilinos10
snl-applications10
mechanics10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MalachiTimothyPhillips/Nek5000
Apr 2020 - Aug 2023
our classic
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
MalachiTimothyPhillips/Trilinos
Jun 2018 - Jul 2026
Primary repository for the Trilinos Project
Contributions:1 PR, 65 pushes, 34 branches in 8 years 2 months
trilinos
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