Nathaniel Hoffman
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Manhattan, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Hoffman is a postdoctoral research associate and experimental medium-energy particle physicist with eight years of experience probing the light meson spectrum to isolate glueball signatures. He earned a PhD at Carnegie Mellon where he led amplitude-modeling and partial-wave analyses for the GlueX experiment, blending statistical background subtraction, machine learning, and software engineering in C/C++, Python, and Rust. Nathaniel developed the laddu Rust/Python library to compose and fit amplitude models, reflecting a practical emphasis on reproducible analysis tooling. Based in Manhattan, Kansas, he combines rigorous data-driven physics with hands-on systems work and a knack for turning messy spectra into testable resonance hypotheses. An interesting quirk: he prefers nvim over emacs and runs Arch Linux, signaling a programmer’s attention to customization and performance.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Washington High SchoolBA in Music, BS in Physics, Physics and Music, BA in Music, BS in Physics, Physics and Music at Case Western Reserve UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (79)
ffi10
tooltips10
binding10
optimization-methods9
rust9
powershell9
sympy9
python9
wolfram-language8
prompt8
statistics8
calculator8
golang8
particle-physics8
optimization8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
denehoffman/PSelector
Jul 2022 - Feb 2026
A pythonic version of the GlueX DSelector
Contributions:2 releases, 14 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 7 months
pythonpythonic
denehoffman/laddu
Oct 2024 - Jun 2026
Amplitude analysis made short and sweet
Contributions:139 releases, 153 PRs, 451 pushes in 1 year 8 months
data-sciencemathmathematical-modellingmathematicsoptimization-methods
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