Russell Fung
Senior Scientist at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Fung is a Senior Scientist with nine years of experience at the interface of cutting-edge physics, biophysics, and high-performance numerical algorithms, based at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He designs and implements ultra-fast, scalable computational methods (C, Fortran, MATLAB with MPI) to solve inverse problems in X-ray scattering, ankylography, and single-molecule structure recovery, often turning seemingly impossible reconstructions into practical tools. His work includes parallelizing phasing codes for orders-of-magnitude performance gains and inventing noise-robust structure discovery methods that have been highlighted in Nature journals and protected by patents. Russell blends instrument development and software engineering—having built and controlled two-photon microscopes and a 21-node cluster—with expertise in manifold-embedding techniques (Isomap, diffusion maps, GTM) and data mining. He is particularly focused on reconstructing ultrafast molecular reaction channels from time-of-flight spectra without precise timing, a project that could reshape time-resolved experiment design.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Physics, Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Science, Physics, Mathematics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Master of Science, Physics, Master of Science, Physics at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeSt. Francis Xavier's CollegeSin To School
Github Skills (6)
data-acquisition3
uncertainty3
optimization2
uncertainty-quantification2
api1
hpc1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ki-analysis/manifold-ga
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
rfung-uwm-edu/sna
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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