Samuel Grunblatt
Assistant Professor at hominin.ai
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Grunblatt is an assistant professor in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Alabama and a planet hunter/asteroseismologist with a decade of experience bridging academic research and data-driven roles. He has led observational and analysis projects from NASA K2 exoplanet surveys to asteroseismic characterization of red giants, and developed Gaussian process noise models and helioseismology pipelines. His recent positions span research scientist roles at Johns Hopkins and fellowships at the American Museum of Natural History and Simons Foundation, now complemented by a Head of Data role at hominin.ai. Samuel combines deep astrophysics expertise with practical data leadership, applying rigorous statistical methods to both stellar physics and exoplanet detection. Based in Tuscaloosa, he brings a rare mix of hands-on instrumentation/analysis experience and software-savvy modeling that accelerates discovery from noisy time-series data.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Kingston High SchoolB.A, Astrophysics, B.A, Astrophysics at Columbia UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Hawaii at Manoa
German, English
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Github Skills (24)
k29
python8
kepler8
planets8
astrophysics8
planet8
astronomy8
altitude7
mercury7
time-series7
jupyter-book6
astrology6
cosmology6
science5
simulation4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skgrunblatt/FoFreeAST
Feb 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
skgrunblatt/skgrunblatt.github.io
Sep 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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