Philipp Dumitrescu
Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPhilipp Dumitrescu is a research scientist based in San Francisco with a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley and a background in theoretical and computational quantum physics. He focuses on designing and implementing algorithms for high-performance computing and data analysis to understand and predict the behavior of large, complex systems. After postdoctoral and fellowship roles at UT Austin and the Simons Foundation, he now applies research-grade methods to cloud-scale problems at Amazon Web Services. His work bridges deep theoretical insight with practical engineering, bringing scientific rigor to production-oriented algorithm design. Though early in his industry tenure, he combines academic pedigree with hands-on experience in scalable computation and analysis.
1 year of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBA & MSci, Natural Sciences (Physics), BA & MSci, Natural Sciences (Physics) at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (38)
computational-science10
parallel-computing10
c-library10
hpc9
scientific-computing9
amr9
multiphysics9
scalable9
cpp9
finite-element-analysis9
sparse7
transpose6
sse6
python6
jit5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phdum-a/mfem
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
awslabs/palace
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
3D finite element solver for computational electromagnetics
Contributions:26 reviews, 4 PRs, 142 pushes in 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.