Carter Rhea
Russian And Math Tutor
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarter Rhea is an Editor in Chief and computationally-minded astrophysicist with eight years of experience bridging research software, large-scale scientific computing, and AI. He recently completed a PhD in observational astrophysics at Université de Montréal after earning an MS in computational mechanics from Duke, and has built data reduction and analysis pipelines for the Dragonfly Telescopic Array while contributing editorial leadership at pyOpenSci. His background blends hands-on algorithmic development (reduction pipelines, scientific software consulting) with roles in industry AI and medical-technology teams, reflecting an ability to move research code into robust, production-ready tools. Based in Montreal, he pairs deep domain expertise in astronomy and applied mathematics with practical software engineering practice and a track record of coordinating cross-disciplinary projects. An unusual strength is his simultaneous fluency in cutting-edge observational techniques and scalable scientific computing, enabling him to translate telescope data needs into maintainable software.
8 years of coding experience
Duke UniversityBS, Pure Mathematics, A, BS, Pure Mathematics, A at COLLEGE OF CHARLESTONCollege of Charleston
English, French
Github Skills (90)
python10
pipeline-framework10
astrophysics10
editors10
journal9
pipeline9
open-access9
astronomy8
carter8
mercury8
discourse8
random-forest7
creative-commons7
academia7
statistics7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
XtraAstronomy/Pumpkin
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Code for Principal Component and Random Forest Classification to study Galaxy Cluster X-ray Emission
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 7 months
classificationrandom-forest
DragonflyTelescope/dfreproject
Apr 2025 - Dec 2025
homegrown reprojection algorithm using torch
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 15 PRs in 8 months
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