Simeon Bird
Professor at University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimeon Bird is a Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of California, Riverside with 13 years of post-PhD research and teaching experience across leading institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins (as a NASA Einstein Fellow). He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers exploring the origin and evolution of the universe, dark matter, primordial black holes, the Lyman-α forest, neutrinos, and the circumgalactic medium, and he combines deep theoretical insight with advanced computational methods and machine learning. Trained in mathematics (First Class BA and Distinction MA) and holding a PhD in Astronomy from Cambridge, Simeon is fluent in cosmological structure-formation simulations and quantitative modeling. He is known for bridging rigorous analytic work with practical simulation pipelines, often pushing numerical techniques to probe subtle signatures of dark components and early-universe physics. Based in Riverside, California, he brings a rare mix of mathematical rigor, computational craft, and curiosity-driven experimentalism to open questions in cosmology.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, First Class Degree, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, First Class Degree at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (62)
simulation10
scales10
parallel10
cosmology10
simulator10
mpi10
mpi4py10
large-scale10
clustering10
particle9
solver9
python9
datasets9
histogram9
astrophysics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sbird/fake_spectra
Nov 2012 - Aug 2022
A code for generating fake spectra from a cosmological simulation
Contributions:7 releases, 20 reviews, 929 commits in 9 years 11 months
simulation
sbird/sbird.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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