Nikhil Padmanabhan
Assoc. Professor at Yale University Careers
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Padmanabhan is an associate professor at Yale with 23 years of experience bridging fundamental physics and academic leadership, holding a PhD from Princeton and a BS from Stanford. His career progressed from a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to faculty roles at Yale, where he has led research and mentored students since 2009. He combines deep theoretical expertise with practical mentorship and curriculum development, shaping both research agendas and graduate training. Based in New Haven, he is known for translating complex physical concepts into teachable frameworks and for sustained contributions to his field over two decades. A detail that sets him apart is his steady academic trajectory through top institutions, reflecting long-term commitment to teaching and research excellence.
23 years of coding experience
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Stanford UniversityPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (78)
programming-language10
parallel10
chapel10
distributed-computing10
language-design10
parallel-computing10
gpu10
scientific-computing10
concurrency10
compiler10
wolfram-language10
mojo10
open-source10
hpc10
traits9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
npadmana/chapel
Jan 2015 - May 2020
a Productive Parallel Programming Language
Contributions:272 pushes, 60 branches, 9 tags in 5 years 4 months
aplparallelproductivecompilerparallel-programming
npadmana/filehandler
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
light-weightheader-libraryheaderlighthandling
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