Richard O'shaughnessy
Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology
Village of Pittsford, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRichard O'shaughnessy is an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology with 15 years of research experience in gravitational wave astrophysics, theoretical astrophysics, and general relativity. He completed a PhD in Physics at Caltech after a BA in Astronomy from Cornell, and has held research and postdoctoral positions at Northwestern, Penn State, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His work focuses on interpreting and modeling gravitational-wave signals, bridging deep theoretical insight with observational context. Based in Pittsford, New York, he brings a track record of sustained academic contributions and mentoring graduate students. Colleagues know him for translating complex relativistic physics into testable astrophysical predictions, a skill that keeps him engaged at the intersection of theory and experiment.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBA, Astronomy, BA, Astronomy at Cornell University
Github Skills (22)
open-science10
python10
astronomy10
signal-processing10
gravity10
wave10
physics10
core-package10
smithy9
pypi8
forge8
conda7
package-repository6
rust5
conda-forge4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oshaughn/RIFT_tutorials
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
oshaughn/research-projects-RIT
Sep 2013 - Feb 2023
Clean version of research-projects, just with ILE
Contributions:4276 commits, 51 PRs, 2477 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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