Sam Yates
Senior Supercomputing Applications Specialist
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Yates is a Senior Supercomputing Applications Specialist with 12 years’ experience applying a strong pure-mathematics background to scientific and high-performance computing across geophysics, teletraffic modelling, computational biology and neuroscience. He co-developed Arbor, a neuron and network simulator for the Human Brain Project, and has held HPC engineering and software roles at Pawsey, CSCS and the Blue Brain Project. Sam blends deep numerical and systems expertise with practical software engineering, from large-scale simulation code to production supercomputing support. Based in Adelaide, he pairs research pedigree (PhD in Mathematics) with hands-on development dating back to game networking and geophysical analysis tools, and brings a rare combination of mathematical rigor and musical discipline to collaborative, multidisciplinary projects.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BMus(Hons), Classical performance (Recorder), First Class, BMus(Hons), Classical performance (Recorder), First Class at University of AdelaideSILS, Liberal Arts, SILS, Liberal Arts at Waseda University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (89)
cmake-modules10
hip10
gpu10
pybind1110
ninja10
infiniband10
neuroscience10
cuda10
simulation10
mpi10
hpc10
buster9
simulations9
neural-network9
computational-neuroscience9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
halfflat/optionalm
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
cppinclude-onlyheader-onlyoptionmonadic
halfflat/nsuite
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
A suite for benchmarking and validating NEURON, Nest and Arbor neuron network simulators/libraries.
Contributions:82 pushes, 45 branches in 2 years
arborbenchmarkingsimulatorsbenchmarknest
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