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Resume:
Benjamin M Byington
Address : *** ********* **
Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Email : *************@*****.***
Website : http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~bbyingto/
Phone: 760-***-****
OBJECTIVE Obtain a position where I can engage in hands-on software development while utilizing
my expertise in mathematics and high performance computing.
EDUCATION • 2008 - Dec 2013: University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
PhD – Applied Mathematics and Statistics
• 2003 - 2008: University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
B.S. – Physics w/ Specialization in Astrophysics ( 3.36 Major GPA)
Minor – Computer Science (3.68 Minor GPA)
SKILLS • Experienced programming in C, C++, Python, Java, Fortran, IDL, L TEX.
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• Experienced developing on heavily parallel systems (MPI, OpenMP, UPC).
• Experienced implementing numerical methods with an emphasis on pseudo-
spectral methods for Fluid Dynamics.
• Experienced solving ODEs and PDEs, both analytically and numerically.
• Capable of easily learning new languages (Fortran/IDL/Python/L TEXwere learned
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on the fly).
• Have utilized git, SVN and CVS for software version control.
• Familiar developing in a Linux environment.
• Capable of self-training in new fields of study.
• Capable of self-directed problem solving.
EXPERIENCE Graduate Student Researcher 2008 - Dec 2013
University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
• Used simulation software to model fluid flows and dynamo processes, as may
be relevant in the solar context.
• Developed several pieces of software designed to simulate flows of magnetic
plasmas and other physical phenomenon, including a fully 3D and MPI parallel
solver of the Boussinesq equations of Magnetohydrodynamics.
• Used and developed code designed to run on top 500 supercomputers, including
Kraken, Ranger and Stampede.
• Attended several workshops and conferences based around numerical modeling
and parallel computing.
• Wrote python and IDL libraries designed to streamline data management and
processing.
• Worked in a self-directed research setting.
• Presented multiple research seminars and posters.
Summer Research Project Summer 2011
Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, NM
• Paid fellowship to attend their 10-week computational physics summer school
• Served as a team lead directing research into mixing processes in Inertial Con-
finement Fusion
• Developed from scratch both a 1D and 2D Lagrangian grid finite element codes.
• Gave a presentation on the summer’s work to a general audience at LANL.
Java Programming Intern 2007 - 2008
NASA ISS EarthKAM, San Diego, CA
• Worked in a team development environment, building a suite of software de-
signed to control and extract data from a camera located on the International
Space Station.
• Developed a software layer used to provide user applications programmatic
access to our databases and third-party software.
• Developed GUI designed to keep track of satellite telemetry data.
Programming Intern 2006 - 2008
Entracity Inc, San Diego, CA
• Installed and administrated Linux servers to use as development boxes.
• Developed java code to parse data and create a “Tag Cloud” of relevant key-
words.
– This included minor work with databases and web servers.
Conferences & • Fall 2011: LWS/SDO-3 Workshop
Workshops A Heliophysics conference at Stanford where I presented a poster on “Stoked
Nondynamos”
• Fall 2010: DEISA/Teragrid Joint Summer School
Workshop held in Catania, Italy that focused on high performance computing
challenges facing the scientific community.
• Summer 2010: IAU Symposium 271
A conference held in Nice, France where I presented my poster on “The Effects
of Small Scale Motions on an Essentially Nonlinear Dynamo”
• Summer 2009: Prospects in Theoretical Astrophysics
Summer school hosted by Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. This year
focused both on what simulation software is common in the community as well
as the theory behind them.
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