Ryan Collanton
Senior Software Engineer at Siemens EDA (Siemens Digital Industries Software)
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Collanton is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of computational science and engineering, now at Siemens EDA. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he developed GPU-accelerated simulation tools and molecular dynamics methods to study complex polymer systems. Past roles include research scientist work building a large C++ simulation package for aerospace systems and internships that blended chemical engineering practice with software development. He thrives on mathematically driven, physics-informed problem solving and routinely translates research-grade code into robust, production-ready software. Based in Santa Barbara, he brings a rare combination of deep theoretical training and hands-on systems engineering that helps teams tackle hard multi-domain problems.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (17)
theory10
particle-system9
polymer9
cpp9
cuda9
monte-carlo8
gpu8
dynamics8
simulation8
singularity8
python7
docker7
fortran5
conda-forge3
routines3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rpcollanton/pscfpp
Nov 2021 - Apr 2024
Polymer Self-Consistent Field Theory (C++/CUDA version)
Contributions:2 PRs, 257 pushes, 37 branches in 2 years 5 months
cudacppgpuconsistentfield
rpcollanton/pscf
Oct 2021 - Apr 2023
Polymer self-consistent field theory (Fortran version)
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
consistentfortranfieldpolymerself-consistent-field-theory
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