Samuel Dankwah
Lecturer at University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa
Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Dankwah is a lecturer and electrical engineer with eight years of experience spanning power systems, reliability, overhead lines, underground cables and substation equipment maintenance. He combines academic research—most recently a postdoc-level trajectory in astrophysics and cosmology work on high-profile projects like DESI and Euclid—with practical expertise in electricity market analysis and electrical diagram design. Skilled at simplifying complex scientific problems, he has managed diverse research projects and organized community development initiatives in Ghana. His open-source contributions to the CLASS cosmology codebase demonstrate back-end numerical expertise, including integrating nonlinear matter power spectrum methods. Comfortable bridging engineering practice and theoretical research, he brings a rare cross-disciplinary perspective from power systems to computational cosmology. Based in Takoradi, he leverages international training from RWTH Aachen, King Mongkut’s, and Barcelona to deliver rigorously engineered solutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
M.Eng Electrical and Information Engineering, Electrical Power and Energy, M.Eng Electrical and Information Engineering, Electrical Power and Energy at King Mongkut's University of Technology North BangkokBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Mines and Technology, TarkwaMaster of Engineering - MEng (Exchange Program), Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng (Exchange Program), Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
English
Github Skills (6)
c1710
cosmology10
c1110
modeling9
numerical-analysis9
mathematical9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lesgourg/class_public
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Public repository of the Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (master for the most recent version of the standard code; GW_CLASS to include Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background anisotropies; classnet branch for acceleration with neutral networks; ExoCLASS branch for exotic energy injection; class_matter branch for FFTlog)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Samuel made several commits focused on enhancing the `nonlinear` module within the Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (CLASS). The primary contributions involved integrating the HMcode non-linear matter power spectrum calculation, along with bug fixes and parameter adjustments. Further commits involved the implementation of the `pk_cb` method for the power spectrum.
public-repositorysolvingsnl-applicationsinjectionanisotropy
SamuelBrieden/BAOFIT
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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