William Dawson
Strategic Competition Analysis Group Leader
Livermore, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Dawson is a research scientist and group leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with 13 years of experience bridging astrophysics and engineering. He leverages weak lensing, X-ray, optical, and spectroscopic observations of merging galaxy clusters to probe dark matter versus baryonic matter and plays an active role in the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration to refine future cosmological measurements. Trained as a PhD physicist, he brings a rare combination of precision observational cosmology and practical offshore engineering experience from five years designing SPAR floating platforms at Technip. Now leading strategic competition analysis, he translates deep technical expertise into program-level insight and interdisciplinary collaboration. Based in Livermore, CA, he is comfortable moving between hands-on data analysis, instrument-driven science, and high-level strategic leadership.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Physics, Ph. D., Physics at University of California, DavisB. Sc., Maritime Systems Engineering, B. Sc., Maritime Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University Galveston Campus
Github Skills (51)
statistics10
des10
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
galaxy9
data-analysis9
scikit8
astrodynamics8
science8
astrology8
pandas8
scikit-learn8
orbital-mechanics8
simulation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MCTwo/MCCutils
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years 7 months
wadawson/dissertation
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:190 commits in 2 months
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