Oliver Elbert
Computer Scientist at NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Elbert is a computer scientist and computational physicist who builds high-performance scientific software to advance weather, climate, and astrophysics modeling. With a PhD in physics and over a decade of production coding in Python, C/C++, MATLAB, and JavaScript, he specializes in porting legacy Fortran models into Python-embedded domain-specific languages that compile to optimized C++/CUDA for leadership-class supercomputers. He has run and benchmarked codes on national HPC systems since 2012 and helped bring NOAA’s FV3GFS model to 1-km resolution through DSL work at Vulcan, AI2, and NOAA. Comfortable at the intersection of domain science and tooling, he combines numerical algorithm development with workflow and infrastructure design to make complex models accessible to scientists. An avid data explorer, he applies Bayesian methods, GANs, and machine learning to create interpretable models—and his background in computational astrophysics gives him a track record of producing higher-resolution simulation datasets than previous studies.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astrophysics at Haverford CollegeUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (46)
shield10
bootstrapping10
noaa10
fpga10
weather-data10
gpx10
dsl9
vivado-hls9
meteorology9
weather-api9
cffi9
weather9
carbon-emissions9
modeling9
cuda9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oelbert/NDSL
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
NOAA NASA Domain Specific Language middleware layer
Contributions:81 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 1 month
oelbert/PySHiELD
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Python versions of the SHiELD physics
Contributions:2 PRs, 458 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 1 month
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