Robert Link
Senior Data Scientist
Manassas, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Link is a Senior Data Scientist and computational scientist with 15 years of experience building high-performance, parallelized models and statistical methods for human–Earth system science, healthcare, and aerospace applications. He blends applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and machine learning (including GANs and MCMC) with production-grade C++, Python, R and Fortran code, and expertise in MPI/OpenMP/TBB to scale models to thousands of processors. At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory he led software and model development—adapting GCAM and earth system emulators for supercomputing—and now applies those skills to health-system data science at UVA Health System. An active contributor to GCAM core, his work spans solver fixes, Fortran interoperability, and agricultural-sector modeling, reflecting a rare mix of domain science and low-level performance engineering. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics and often combines spectral/PCA methods and deep-learning emulators to translate complex spatial–temporal processes into actionable models.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Florida State UniversityPhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (14)
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camera10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
modeling10
model-driven10
model-driven-development10
integrate9
fortran9
water8
fantasy-land8
landing-zone8
clim8
economics8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JGCRI/gcam-core
Dec 2010 - Dec 2017
GCAM -- The Global Change Analysis Model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:164 commits, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily involve modifications to the `ag_sector.cpp` file, indicating a focus on the agricultural sector within the GCAM model. These changes include adding support for lower-case Fortran names, modifying code related to Fortran calls, and updating function calls. The user also contributed to adding a plotting script for the solver-data-log. Furthermore, there are modifications across different files like `logger.cpp`, `world.cpp` and `dependency_finder.cpp`, suggesting work across different parts of the GCAM core.
biodiversitymodel-analysissustainabilityclimate-changeclimate-science
rplzzz/CovMitigation
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Model for COVID-19 spread in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Contributions:16 PRs, 126 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 2 months
spreadvirginiacommonwealth
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