Mathew Bub
PhD Candidate
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolMathew Bub is a Caltech PhD candidate in physics with nine years of research experience spanning theoretical high-energy physics, astrophysics, and computational modeling. His work includes investigations into black hole superradiance in binaries aimed at detecting ultralight bosons and numerical studies of confinement in supersymmetric Yang–Mills, reflecting a blend of analytic and computational skill. He has contributed to projects on stellar dynamics in the Galactic centre and large-scale orbit simulations using Gaia data, demonstrating facility with scientific software and large-data astrophysical inference. Comfortable moving between formal theory and practical code, he has a track record of publishing collaborative results and building simulation tools that bridge theory and observable signatures. Based in Pasadena, he combines rigorous mathematical training with hands-on computational implementation, often pursuing questions that connect fundamental physics to gravitational-wave and astrophysical observables.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyHonours Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Physics, Honours Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Physics at University of TorontoDr. John M. Denison Secondary SchoolMaster of Science, Theoretical Physics (Perimeter Scholars International), Master of Science, Theoretical Physics (Perimeter Scholars International) at University of Waterloo
French, English
Github Skills (12)
integral10
physics10
gaia10
astronomy10
dynamics10
scientific-computing9
python9
cosmology9
astrophysics9
orbital-mechanics9
simulation9
orbit9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mwbub/binary-evolution
May 2019 - May 2021
Simulating the evolution of binary systems modelled as Keplerian rings perturbed by an external potential.
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 173 pushes in 1 year 11 months
entropyevolutionsimulationinterval-arithmeticrings
mwbub/galpy
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Galactic Dynamics in python
Contributions:33 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
pythongalacticastrodynamicsgalactic-dynamicsdynamics
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