Robert Singleton
Adjunct Professor at The University of New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Singleton is an accomplished physicist and adjunct professor with over two decades of research experience spanning quantum computing, plasma physics, high-energy theory, and code verification. He played a leading role in resolving fundamental plasma problems—most notably the Brown-Preston-Singleton stopping power for weakly coupled plasmas—and earlier contributed the Sharp-Singleton scenario in lattice fermion symmetry breaking. More recently he has translated his theoretical toolkit into applied quantum algorithm development on D-Wave annealers and practical verification of large hydrodynamics and radiation-hydrodynamics codes. Based in Santa Fe, he balances academic teaching and visiting research with industry-facing quantum science roles, bringing both deep analytic skill and hands-on computational implementation. An underappreciated thread through his career is an ability to move fluidly between rigorous analytic field theory and pragmatic numerical/code-centric solutions, making him effective at taking theoretical insights to computationally tractable results.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics and Mathematics, BA Physics and Mathematics at Berea CollegeJohns Hopkins UniversityPhD Physics, PhD Physics at Stanford University
Github Skills (2)
multiprecision8
verification6
Github contributions (2)
lanl/clog
Dec 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:44 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
lanl/ExactPack
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:24 commits in 1 year 4 months
verification-codeopen-source-softwaremultiprecisionverification
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