Zane Fink
Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZane Fink is a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with eight years of experience at the intersection of compilers, programming models, and high-performance computing. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and transitioned from graduate research in exascale-enabled simulation to developing compiler and runtime support for heterogeneous and approximate computing. His work blends practical systems engineering—demonstrated by GPU acceleration and hybrid CPU/GPU algorithm design—with algorithmic innovation for resource-constrained and delay-tolerant environments. Based in San Francisco, he brings a researcher’s rigor to production-oriented tooling, frequently bridging long-running research projects with deployable software artifacts. An early track record of securing funding and shipping research software suggests he not only invents efficient algorithms but also drives them toward real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at Northern Arizona UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (76)
distributed-computing10
modular10
charm10
asynchronous-tasks10
issue-tracking10
system-programming9
symbolic-execution9
parallel9
python9
parallel-computing9
clang9
cpp9
unit-testing9
property-based-testing9
hpc9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ZwFink/commi
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Communication Interface
Contributions:14 PRs, 16 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 5 months
communication-interfacecommunicationpolyglot
ZwFink/sauerkraut
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Migratable Python Frames
Contributions:69 PRs, 69 pushes, 70 branches in 5 months
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