Zhiyuan Ma
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiyuan Ma (Jerry) is a postdoctoral researcher and software-savvy astrophysicist with a decade of experience probing galaxy formation and evolution during cosmic noon. He blends rigorous theory, statistics, simulations, and machine learning with hands-on expertise in imaging processing, data reduction, and visualization to turn large telescope datasets into scientific insight. His toolkit centers on Python and C/C++, and he champions open source—having developed a reliable algorithm for deblending low-resolution sources and the PostCalib pipeline for the WIYN ODI instrument. Comfortable moving between research and production code, he has a track record of delivering reproducible pipelines and interpretable models that connect raw observations to astrophysical interpretation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Master of Science (MS), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Nankai UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Chinese, English
Github Skills (17)
packer7
jekyll-theme7
vagrant6
jekyll6
single-source6
docker6
linux6
github-pages5
terraform5
jar2
python2
java1
dashboard1
data-structures1
hystrix-dashboard1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ma-zhiyuan/PersonalRecommendation
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ma-zhiyuan/ma-zhiyuan.github.io
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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