Steve Croft
Associate Project Astronomer
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Croft is an Associate Project Astronomer and Project Scientist for the Breakthrough Listen Initiative based at UC Berkeley with joint appointments at Oxford and the SETI Institute, bringing over a decade of experience in radio astronomy, time-domain analysis, and petabyte-scale dataset science. He directs Berkeley's SETI undergraduate research program—over 140 alumni—and leads multimillion-dollar observing programs on the Green Bank Telescope while publishing 100+ refereed papers on topics from anomaly detection to supermassive black hole growth. Comfortable translating complex research for public and technical audiences, he has led major NASA-funded outreach efforts and regularly appears in media and invited lecture series. Unusually for an academic scientist, he combines large-program project leadership, hands-on signal-processing expertise (including GNU Radio work), and a strong track record of mentoring undergraduates into top institutions and industry.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at University of OxfordHigh School, High School at Calday Grange Grammar SchoolUniversity College London
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (2)
python4
numba3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough
Apr 2016 - May 2021
UC Berkeley's software and documentation for Breakthrough Listen data
Contributions:112 commits, 9 PRs, 90 pushes in 5 years 1 month
berkeleybreakthroughuc-berkeley
UCBerkeleySETI/blml
May 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes in 4 years
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