Ruoshi Sun
Lead Scientist Of Scientific Computing at Self
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuoshi Sun is a Lead Scientist of Scientific Computing at the University of Virginia with eight years of experience bridging high-performance computing, research software engineering, and systems strategy. She specializes in software stack management and automation—streamlining deployments with EasyBuild, adopting modern compiler toolchains, and rebuilding stacks across OS upgrades to keep research workflows performant and reproducible. An advocate for lightweight, efficient containers, she has substantially reduced image sizes (e.g., a 47% cut for AlphaFold and 99% for LightGBM) and teaches best practices for Docker/Singularity/Apptainer across the user community. She develops custom tools and automation (Slack bots, EasyBuild scripts, Jupyter kernel installers) to simplify researcher workflows and coordinated NVIDIA BasePOD training and documentation. Holding a PhD from MIT in Materials Science and dual BS degrees in Materials Science and Mathematics, she combines deep computational domain expertise with practical systems engineering. She also self-publishes piano transcriptions and translations, an unusual creative outlet that complements her technical problem-solving.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
German, Spanish, English, chinese (mandarin, cantonese), Japanese
Github Skills (145)
gbm10
hugo10
parallel10
describe10
python10
cpp10
modular10
r10
linux10
gradient10
gradient-boosting10
lightgbm10
html10
high-performance10
catboost10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
uvarc/rc-learning
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
RC workshop, short course, tutorials
Contributions:115 commits, 22 PRs, 136 pushes in 2 years 3 months
shortworkshop
uvarc/apps-tools
Feb 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:84 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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