Simone Riggi
Associate Research Technologist
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolSimone Riggi is an Associate Research Technologist with over a decade of experience in nuclear physics, astroparticle research and R&D software engineering, currently based at INAF in Catania. He has led development of monitoring and control software for large-scale instruments such as the SKA radio-telescope and contributed to muon tomography and cosmic-ray experiments, blending deep physics expertise with practical engineering. Proficient in C/C++, Fortran, Java, Linux, ROOT, MPI/GRID and database tools, he specializes in advanced statistical analysis, simulation, distributed computing and 3D visualization. Comfortable in international, multidisciplinary teams, he combines a PhD-level scientific background with hands-on system design for detectors and telescope managers. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of translating complex instrument requirements into real-time imaging and supervision software used in operational observatories and security-focused tomographic systems.
10 years of coding experience
Diploma di maturità scientifica, 100/100, Diploma di maturità scientifica, 100/100 at Liceo Scientifico G. GalileiDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, lode, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, lode at Università di Catania
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (59)
image-processing9
image9
finder9
celery9
segmentation9
flask9
cli9
rest-api9
computer-vision8
object-detection8
radio-astronomy8
python8
api8
pose-estimation8
pytorch8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
simoneriggi/ska
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:316 commits, 215 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
SKA-INAF/caesar
Sep 2017 - Sep 2022
Caesar source finder tool
Contributions:12 releases, 890 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years
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