Paul La Plante
Professor at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolPaul La Plante is a Professor of Computer Science at UNLV with nine years of post-PhD experience bridging astrophysics research and data science education. He studies Cosmic Dawn and develops computational methods to help machines interpret signals from the universe’s first stars, combining rigorous cosmology research with practical data-science teaching. His work spans research appointments at Berkeley and Penn and a PhD in Physics from Carnegie Mellon, reflecting a strong foundation in theory and computation. Paul is active in science outreach and diversity initiatives, aiming to broaden participation in astronomy while training the next generation of data-savvy researchers. Based in Las Vegas, he brings an uncommon blend of hands-on astrophysical modeling and applied machine learning pedagogy.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Loyola University MarylandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (56)
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reduction10
binning10
python10
astronomy10
ats10
pythonic10
calibration10
absolute10
radio-astronomy10
open-access9
journal9
control-m8
data-quality8
simulation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UPennEoR/ml_rfi
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Machine learning applied to RFI flagging
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 10 months
appliedpythonflaggingmachinelearningmachine-learning
HERA-Team/hera_cm_db_updates
Dec 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:6280 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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