Shawn Zamperini
Staff Scientist at General Atomics
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Zamperini is a Staff Scientist at General Atomics with nine years of experience applying computational and experimental methods to plasma–material interaction and impurity transport in fusion devices. He specializes in Monte Carlo simulations of turbulent edge transport, material erosion studies, and validation of reactor-relevant wall materials (C, W, SiC), combining Linux-based tooling with Python, Fortran, IDL and C/C++ for data analysis and signal processing. Trained as a nuclear engineer with a PhD from the University of Tennessee and a physics undergraduate background, he bridges rigorous modeling with hands-on experimental campaigns. An effective communicator and presenter, he also brings leadership in DEI—having chaired the DIII-D DEI panel—and a detail-oriented, collaborative approach informed by his love of problem-solving (and an unexpected fondness for pugs and phở).
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of VirginiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github Skills (27)
simulations10
fusion-reactor10
fusion10
simulation9
reactor9
hydrodynamics9
pip6
data-access6
ctypes6
glibc6
linux6
bash6
makefile6
autotools6
pandas6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ORNL-Fusion/utk-fusion
Jan 2021 - Aug 2024
Useful scripts used by the group at UTK to analyze things like DIVIMP/3DLIM/SOLPS runs, collector probe data access and related DIII-D and WEST data analysis.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 3 years 7 months
data-analysisprobedata-accessutkruns
ORNL-Fusion/Collector-Probes
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
Scripts related to accessing and analyzing data from the deposition probes.
Contributions:4 PRs, 176 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
analyzingprobes
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