Valeriu Predoi
Computational Scientist For UKESM
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolValeriu Predoi is a computational scientist and senior postdoctoral researcher with nine years of experience applying statistical and high-performance computing techniques to gravitational-wave data analysis and large-scale Earth system modelling. Currently supporting UKESM work at the University of Reading and formerly part of Cardiff’s GW group, he helped develop and optimise pipelines that recover signals orders of magnitude below detector noise and contributed to work underpinning the first direct detections. His background blends Bayesian and frequentist inference, Monte Carlo parameter estimation, and parallelised software deployment across clusters, honed also through viral dynamics modelling and teaching Python and MATLAB. An active contributor to scientific open-source tooling, he has made targeted backend fixes within the conda-forge ecosystem to solve real-world dependency issues for scientific packages. Colleagues know him for turning challenging, noisy datasets into robust, reproducible results and for a practical focus on software reliability in research workflows. He seeks to transfer these analytical and computational strengths to broader interdisciplinary problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Gravitational Waves Data Analysis, Doctoral thesis: minimum corrections., Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Gravitational Waves Data Analysis, Doctoral thesis: minimum corrections. at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Astrophysics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Astrophysics at Université de MontréalBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geosciences and Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Geosciences and Astrophysics at Jacobs University Bremen / International University Bremen
English, French, Romanian, Italian
Github Skills (4)
conda-forge10
dependency-management10
python10
json9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/conda-forge-repodata-patches-feedstock
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
A conda-smithy repository for conda-forge-repodata-patches.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Valeriu's contributions primarily involve modifying a Python script related to repodata patching within the conda-forge ecosystem. They focused on addressing an issue with the `iris` package, specifically pinning the `netCDF4` dependency to a specific version to avoid segfaults. The user also implemented adjustments to dependency versions for different `iris` versions and correctly appended the dependency instead of overwriting the existing list, ensuring accurate package compatibility.
condaconda-forge
ESMValGroup/ESMValTool_sample_data
Jan 2021 - Oct 2025
Samples of publicly available datasets for use with ESMValTool
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 3 PRs in 4 years 9 months
data-analysisdata-scienceesmvaltooldatasetdatasets
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