Xue-feng Ding
特聘青年研究员 at Princeton University
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolXue-feng Ding is a PhD-trained astro-particle physicist and research scientist based in Beijing with 10 years’ experience turning complex detector data into compelling physics results. Currently a distinguished young researcher at IHEP and previously a core analyzer at Princeton and LNGS, he played a leading role in experimental evidence for CNO solar neutrinos and in precision measurements of solar metallicity. He combines deep domain expertise in Monte Carlo/GEANT4 simulation, detector reconstruction and statistical model-building with production-grade software skills in C++, Python and SQL. An open-source developer, he contributed backend fixes and package maintenance to the widely used Spack ecosystem and created GooStats, a GPU/CUDA multivariate regression tool for large-scale fits. Colleagues note his blend of meticulous data-cleaning practice and pragmatic engineering—he equally values reproducible pipelines as novel physics insight.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Experimental particle physics, Master of Science - MS, Experimental particle physics at Wuhan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astro-particle physics, Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astro-particle physics, Cum Laude at GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute
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Github Skills (18)
python10
package-management10
build-tools10
package-manager10
hpc9
scientific-computing9
cprogramming-language8
cmake8
c-language8
pycharm6
iminuit6
mayavi6
fortran6
boolean6
pandas6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Package Maintainer
Back-end Developer / Package MaintainerContributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 37 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Xue-feng primarily contributed to the spack package manager by adding support for and fixing issues related to the Geant4 and GCC packages. They added an HDF5 variant to Geant4, fixed a typo in a Geant4 configuration file, and updated the Geant4-data package to support G4TENDL. The user also fixed a typo in a GCC package's setup environment script and added root to the python rpath in the root package.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
DingXuefeng/GooStats
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
statistical analysis framework using GPUs
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 195 pushes in 3 years
statisticsgpustatistical-analysis-frameworkstatistical-learningstatistical
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