Marco Barbone
Software Engineer at Simons Foundation
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMarco Barbone is a software engineer and Imperial College PhD student with eight years of experience building high-performance, low-latency systems across academia and industry. He brings deep expertise in SIMD, GPU programming, parallel and distributed algorithms from roles at CERN, Maxeler, Intel, and a recent position at the Simons Foundation. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has hands-on background in CUDA, OpenCL, FPGA programming and hardware simulation, and a track record of optimizing compute-intensive pipelines. Based in New York, he’s contributed to large-scale scientific experiments and finance-facing internships, combining rigorous academic training with practical engineering that squeezes performance from both software and hardware. An often-overlooked strength is his committee work representing PhD cohorts, signaling strong communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate PhD student, Associate PhD student at The Institute of Cancer ResearchPhD Student, Computing, PhD Student, Computing at Imperial College LondonMaster's degree (Hons.), Computer science and networking, Master's degree (Hons.), Computer science and networking at Scuola Superiore Sant'AnnaMaster's degree (Hons.), Computer Science, Master's degree (Hons.), Computer Science at Università di Pisa
English, Italian
Github Skills (91)
computational-physics10
simd-library10
high-energy-physics10
cpp10
scientific-computing10
fourier-transform10
avx10
sse10
intrinsics10
geometry10
risc-v10
vsx10
neon10
geant410
simulation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vkhristenko/test-regression
Jul 2018 - Mar 2024
testing cms hcal/ecal regression
Contributions:1 PR, 57 pushes in 5 years 9 months
DiamonDinoia/xsimd
Jun 2024 - Jul 2026
C++ wrappers for SIMD intrinsics and parallelized, optimized mathematical functions (SSE, AVX, AVX512, NEON, SVE))
Contributions:123 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 1 month
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