Davis W.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Theory and Computation
Experience
Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
7 monthsNew York, United States
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Theory and Computation
New York University
Feb 2023 - Present
2 years 10 monthsNew York, United States
HPC Application Engineer: Computational Chemistry/Physics
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Develop and optimize HPC applications for computational physics/chemistry simulations on multi-core CPU and GPU-based systems, improving performance over 30%.
- Collaborate with scientific researchers to profile and identify bottlenecks in large-scale computational physics/chemistry applications, optimizing memory usage and reducing computational times.
- Perform benchmarks using computational chemistry/physics software to investigate scaling impacts on different interconnects (i.e. between the newer NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR (Next Data Rate) and HDR (High Data Rate) and a further comparison to HPE Slingshot).
- Perform system-level tuning, benchmarking, and performance evaluations on national supercomputing clusters such as Frontier and NERSC.
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
1 yearLos Angeles, United States
Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Theory and Computation
University of California, Los Angeles
Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
2 years 1 monthCambridge, United States
Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Theory and Computation
Harvard University
Sep 2016 - Jun 2021
4 years 10 monthsHamburg, Germany
Doctoral Research Fellow - Theory and Computation
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Summary
- A highly skilled High-Performance Computing (HPC) Application Engineer with focus on computational physics and chemistry software. Extensive experience in developing, optimizing, and scaling scientific and engineering applications for large-scale HPC systems.
- Proficient in parallel programming, performance analysis, and system architecture, with expertise in leveraging multi-core processors, GPUs, and distributed computing frameworks. Adept at working with industry-standard HPC tools and libraries to enhance performance and efficiency across a variety of domains including computational physics, chemistry, and molecular dynamics.
- Theoretical and computational quantum physicist with 7 years expertise in quantum chemistry, quantum optics, condensed matter physics, nonlinear optics, etc. Scientific communicator with at least 13 publications in scientific journals, more than a dozen talks at national and international conferences.
Languages
English
NativeFrench
AdvancedGerman
IntermediateEducation
Sep 2016 - Jun 2021
University of Hamburg
Ph.D in Physics, Quantum Materials Engineering · Physics · Hamburg, Germany
Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
University of Buea
M.Sc in Physics · Physics · Buea, Cameroon
Oct 2010 - Jul 2013
University of Buea
B.Sc in Physics, minor Computer Sciences · Physics · Buea, Cameroon
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