Summary
Melvin Irizarry-gelpí is a physics-trained educator and computational enthusiast with 12 years of experience teaching undergraduate physics and mathematics across New York-area colleges, currently teaching Calculus II at Sarah Lawrence College. He pairs deep theoretical expertise in quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, linear algebra, and group theory with practical coding skills in Python, Jupyter, NumPy, Pandas, Altair, Go, and Git to produce reproducible, data-driven course materials. Comfortable developing original lecture content, exams, and lab data-analysis pipelines, he brings a hands-on approach to pedagogy informed by research at institutions like the C.N. Yang Institute and Wesleyan. A family-centered creator who describes his GitHub work as "organic, small batch, handcrafted" physics and math content, he is actively expanding into machine learning, molecular dynamics, and quantum computation.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Theoretical Physics, B.S., Theoretical Physics at Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez
Summer Course: Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards and Security, Summer Course: Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards and Security at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at Stony Brook University
English, Spanish