William Phelps
Associate Professor
Newport News, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Phelps is an Assistant Professor and experimental nuclear physicist with 11 years of experience bridging academia, large-scale laboratory operations, and data science. He teaches data manipulation and introductory data science while serving as a Joint Staff Scientist on CLAS12, contributing to hardware/software operations and hyperon/antibaryon production experiments. His Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics underpins a track record of mentoring students, leading physics analyses, and driving AI and Partial Wave Analysis projects for Jefferson Lab and the future Electron Ion Collider. Proficient in Python, Java, data visualization, and LaTeX, he applies software skills to experimental workflows and emerging AI efforts in nuclear physics. Based in Newport News, VA, he combines hands-on detector R&D experience with classroom pedagogy, making complex experimental techniques accessible to students. An often-overlooked strength: he consistently moves between low-level hardware problems and high-level data science solutions, enabling end-to-end experiment impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Engineering, Pre-Engineering at Landstown Technology AcademyBachelor of Science, Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science, Applied Physics at Christopher Newport UniversityPh.D., Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Ph.D., Nuclear Physics - Experiment at Florida International University
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (6)
graph10
java10
data-visualization9
simulation6
python6
scientific-computing5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gavalian/groot
Jun 2016 - Nov 2020
Java Data Visualization, graph, plots, charts
Contributions:207 commits, 13 PRs, 168 pushes in 4 years 5 months
data-visualizationgraphjava
JeffersonLab/clas12-analysis
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
CLAS12 Java Analysis Library
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 40 commits in 3 years 2 months
java
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