Richard Boyd
Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Boyd is a Senior Research Scientist based in Atlanta with over two decades of research and engineering experience focused on high-performance and parallel computing, GPU/CUDA programming, and real-time graphics. He brings deep physics training (Ph.D. and M.S. from Caltech) to applied computational problems, blending rigorous analytical thinking with hands-on systems optimization. At Georgia Tech Research Institute he has translated advanced rendering and GPU techniques into practical research solutions, building on earlier satellite systems engineering at Hughes/Boeing. His work emphasizes performance at scale—optimizing for throughput, latency, and parallelism in demanding real-time contexts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges academic rigor and operational delivery, often drawing on physics-informed approaches not typical in software engineering.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Emory University
Github Skills (14)
docker10
nlp10
clinical-research10
luigi10
solr10
mongodb10
natural-language-processing10
python9
flask-restful5
utility2
internals2
utilities1
api1
pipeline1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ClarityNLP/ClarityNLP
Mar 2018 - Aug 2022
An NLP framework for clinical phenotyping. Docker | Python | Solr | OMOP. http://claritynlp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Contributions:989 commits, 13 PRs, 622 pushes in 4 years 6 months
pythonsolrclinicalphenotypingclinical-quality-language
ClarityNLP/claritynlp-nova
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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