Vincent Michaud-rioux
Lead High Performance Computing at Kothar Computing
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolVincent Michaud-rioux is a Lead High Performance Computing engineer with a decade of experience building and optimizing scientific software that bridges physics, applied mathematics, and large-scale computing. He has led development of production-grade DFT and quantum transport codes and more recently accelerated quantum simulation backends at Xanadu, delivering multi-core and GPU-enabled PennyLane-Lightning plugins. Vincent excels in end-to-end performance work—deriving PDE discretizations, selecting linear algebra schemes, and implementing tailored data structures, profiling, and heterogeneous parallelization (CUDA, OpenMP, ROCm, MPI). He contributes to notable open-source infrastructure such as Spack by maintaining complex Python packages and ensuring cross-platform compatibility for GPU backends. Based in Montreal with a PhD-level physics background, he pairs deep theoretical insight with pragmatic engineering and a knack for making hard numerical problems run at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Physics, Doctor of Philosophy Physics at McGill University
French, English
Github Skills (12)
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c-language10
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cmake10
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python10
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scientific-computing9
roc9
openmp9
cuda9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Mar 2023 - Apr 2024
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 4 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent contributed significantly to the `py-pennylane-lightning-kokkos` package within the Spack ecosystem. Their work involved adding and updating the `py-pennylane-lightning-kokkos` package, including implementing CUDA, OpenMP, and ROCm backends. Key contributions include updating dependencies, fixing versioning, and resolving compatibility issues. Furthermore, they managed updates to the related `py-pennylane` and `py-pennylane-lightning` packages.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
vincentmr/spack
Feb 2023 - Jul 2024
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:52 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 5 months
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