Davis W.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Theory and Computation

United States

Experience

Jul 2023 - Jan 2024
7 months
New York, United States

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Theory and Computation

New York University

Feb 2023 - Present
2 years 11 months
New 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 year
Los Angeles, United States

Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Theory and Computation

University of California, Los Angeles

Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
2 years 1 month
Cambridge, United States

Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Theory and Computation

Harvard University

Sep 2016 - Jun 2021
4 years 10 months
Hamburg, 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
Native
French
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

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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