Paul Simmerling
Graduate Research Fellow
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Simmerling is a Graduate Research Fellow and Caltech PhD student specializing in experimental particle physics, detector hardware, and AI-driven analysis with a decade of hands-on research experience. He brings a rare blend of physics, electrical engineering, and software skills—developing deep learning models for event generation and reconstruction while designing PCB adapters for high-luminosity detector upgrades. His work spans CLAS12 at JLab and EIC projects, improving legacy C++/Java/Python codebases for multithreading and characterization of MAPMTs, demonstrating both hardware finesse and production-level software engineering. Past internships in fusion and swarm robotics underscore his comfort across RF systems, instrumentation, and embedded data collection. Based in Los Angeles, he combines rigorous academic training with practical lab engineering to translate complex experimental requirements into scalable analysis and detector solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyB.S.E., Electrical Engineering, B.S.E., Electrical Engineering at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (8)
ssa3
java2
tla2
abstract-interpretation1
static-analysis1
source-code-analysis1
static-analyzer1
program-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cms-lpc-llp/mds_analysis
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:80 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
CaltechPrecisionTiming/qaqc_jig
Oct 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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