Douglas Thain
Professor at University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Thain is a professor and director of the Cooperative Computing Lab at the University of Notre Dame with 17 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems that accelerate scientific discovery. He leads development and global distribution of open-source software used by researchers in high energy physics, bioinformatics, data mining, and molecular dynamics, translating academic research into production-grade tools. His career at Notre Dame spans roles from assistant professor to associate chair and now professor, reflecting deep institutional leadership in both research and education. Trained as a physicist (B.S.) and holding a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he brings interdisciplinary rigor to systems design. Colleagues know him for combining practical engineering with a commitment to open science—delivering software that not only scales but is adopted worldwide.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (42)
reproducible-research10
alien10
python10
harness10
grids10
large-scale10
kernel10
scale10
driver10
ports10
command-line10
macos10
collider10
scripting9
filesystem9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cooperative-computing-lab/makeflow-examples
Nov 2016 - Jun 2022
Example workflows for the Makeflow workflow system.
Contributions:61 commits, 22 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 years 7 months
wdlmakeflowworkflowsreproducible-researchworkflow
dthain/cctools
Nov 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1025 commits, 1 PR, 811 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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