Summary
Weirong Yuan is a software engineer with nine years of experience bridging computational physics and applied software development, currently contributing at Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks in Waltham, MA. He holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue, where he spent five years developing high-performance C++ simulations (MPI-parallelized) to study femtosecond laser–metal interactions and discovered novel ablation mechanisms. His background includes building perception stacks for an autonomous railroad robot using ROS, LIDAR processing, and sensor integration on Jetson platforms, reflecting strong hands-on systems and robotics experience. Comfortable across research and product environments, he combines numerical modeling, performance optimization, and practical software engineering to deliver measurable results. Notably, he translated deep domain knowledge in extreme environments into efficient, production-ready codebases, demonstrating a rare mix of scientific insight and engineering rigor.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Nuclear Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Purdue University