Christine Simpson
Assistant Computational Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristine Simpson is an assistant computational scientist with over a decade of experience building and scaling parallel simulation codes to probe galaxy formation, cosmic rays, and large multi-terabyte datasets. She has led development of high-performance C/C++ and FORTRAN code that runs on hundreds to thousands of cores, enabling order-of-magnitude resolution improvements and faster runtimes for hydrodynamic and supernova modeling. Her work spans hands-on simulation platform design, threaded Python data analysis, and mentoring students, resulting in publishable astrophysical predictions and novel insights into galactic outflows and satellite star formation. Based in Chicago, she blends deep academic training (PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics) with production-grade HPC engineering, and is known for turning compute-heavy theory into reproducible, scalable science.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Astronomy, Master's degree, Astronomy at Wesleyan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Wellesley College
Github Skills (15)
scripting9
simulation9
acceleration8
python7
convolution7
automation7
hpc7
pytorch5
machine-learning4
ai4
inference3
java2
science2
spring2
high-performance1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
architvasan/MLDocking_Dragon
Apr 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:24 PRs, 116 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
cms21/parsl
Dec 2022 - Oct 2025
Parsl - a Python parallel scripting library
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
scriptingpythonparallel-pythonparallel
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