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.
13 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 (87)
parallel10
simulator10
solver10
spectra10
simulation10
cosmology10
particle10
mesh9
notebook9
python9
ipython9
hierarchical9
scales9
jupyter9
histogram9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MP-Gadget/shenqi
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
BSD-licensed cosmological simulation code with GPU acceleration
Contributions:9 reviews, 11 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 months
sbird/sbird.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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