Tucker Hartland
Postdoctoral Researcher -- Center For Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tracy, California, United States
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Top SchoolTucker Hartland is a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with nine years of experience developing scalable computational methods for large-scale inverse problems and PDE-constrained optimization. He specializes in numerical algorithms—semi-smooth Newton and quasi-Newton solvers—and high-performance implementations using libraries like PETSc and MFEM to tackle real-world ice-sheet modeling and bound-constrained optimization. His work bridges theory and application, from deriving analytic closures for turbulence models to practical Bayesian inversion techniques that account for secondary uncertainties. Tucker has a strong academic foundation (PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics) and a track record of national-lab internships and collaborations that translate advanced numerical analysis into deployable scientific computing tools.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at California State University-ChicoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of California, Merced
English, Spanish
Github Skills (57)
constrained-optimization10
modeling-tool10
computational-science10
solver10
hpc10
parallel-computing10
finite-element-analysis10
nonlinear-optimization10
c-library10
cpp10
amr10
scalable10
scientific-computing10
optimization-methods9
mixed-integer-programming9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thartland/Albany
Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
Sandia National Laboratories' Albany multiphysics code
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
multiphysicslaboratoriesnationalsandia-national-laboratories
thartland/inverse_ipm
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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