Chen Chen
COLUMBUS OH 43212
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EDUCATION Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute(RPI), Troy, NY, May 2013
Ph.D., Physics (GPA:3.88)
Concentration: Computational and Statistical Physics
Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China(USTC), Hefei, China, June 2008
B.S., Physics
EXPERIENCE Postdoctral Summer 2013-Present
Department of Physics,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Developed and updated existing Fortran packages to study the Hubbard model
• Converting existing Fortran packages into C++ packages
Research Assistant Summer 2009-summer 2013
Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
• Developed C++ code for Monte Carlo Simulation of Quantum Field Theories.
• Modeling of dark matters.
Summer School Student August 2012
Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Summer School on Nuclear Physics and Computational QCD (including dis-
tributed computing and GPU computing)
Visiting Research Student Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Developed simulation/modeling program/project in C++ for the Monte Carlo
simulation of the 3-4-5 Model
(developed and optimized 3000 lines of C++ code )
Teach Assistant Summer 2008-summer 2009
Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Summer Program Research Student Summer 2007
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• Developed and updated existing C++ package to simulate the optical properties
of acrylic tanks in neutrino detectors
Research Assistant Spring 2007
Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,
Anhui, China
• Analyzing the time resolution of MRPC particle detector.
MATH & Statistics, Numerical Calculations, Data Analysis
PHYSICS
SKILLS
High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Computational
Physics, Monte Carlo Simulations, Scientific Computing(Parallel Algorithm, GPU
Accelerating, Supercomputer Computing)
COMPUTER • Languages: Proficient in C, C++, Nvidia CUDA C (GPU), OpenMP( shared
SKILLS memory multiprocessing programming), MPI(Message Passing Interface for
parallel programming on high performance computers), Database, SQL, For-
tran, Perl, Awk, Sed, Linux shell script; Minor experiences in Assembly, m4
macro preprocessor
• Software & Package: Visual Studio, Mathematica, GIT, ROOT (C++ large
data (can not reside fully in the memory) analysis& mining library developed
by CERN for particle experiment data analysis), GEANT4 (Monte Carlo C++
library for simulating the passage of particles through matters)
• Operating Systems: Familiar with the modern operating system and its internal
structures. Proficient in Unix, Linux and most Unix-like operating systems in
addition to Microsoft Windows
TALKS Invited
• Syracuse University, High Energy Theory Physics Seminar, 2012. Talk: “The
study of decoupling mirror fermions via an anomaly free model ”
PUBLICATIONS • C. Chen, J. Giedt, E. Poppitz,
“On the decoupling of mirror fermions”
Journal of High Energy Physics 131, 1304 (2013), [arXiv:1211.6947 [hep-lat]].
• C. Chen, J. Giedt and J. Paki,
“Supercurrent conservation in the lattice Wess-Zumino model with Ginsparg-
Wilson fermions,” Phys. Rev. D 84, 025001 (2011) [arXiv:1104.1126 [hep-lat]].
• C. Chen, E. Dzienkowski and J. Giedt,
“Lattice Wess-Zumino model with Ginsparg-Wilson fermions: One-loop results
and GPU benchmarks,” Phys. Rev. D 82, 085001 (2010) [arXiv:1005.3276 [hep-
lat]].
• Joel Giedt, Chen Chen and Eric Dzienkowski,
“Lattice Wess-Zumino model simulation with GPUs, ” Proceeding of Science
(Lattice 2010) 052
MEMBERSHIP • RPI Swimming Club Fall 2010-May 2013
RPI, Troy, NY, USA
• RPI Ski & Snowboarding Club Fall 2008-May 2013
RPI, Troy, NY, USA
• Member of School Track and Field Team Fall 2005-Spring 2008
USTC, Hefei, Anhui, China