Hugh Carson
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHugh Carson is a Senior Applied Scientist with a PhD in Computational Science and Engineering from MIT and an M.Eng. from Cambridge, bringing deep expertise in computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, error estimation, mesh adaptivity and optimization. He has applied this academic rigor across industry roles at Amazon, Prime Air and AWS, transitioning from flight controls and modeling to design and simulation of quantum computing devices. Known for bridging applied mathematics with machine learning and scientific computation, he focuses on green energy and physics-based simulation workflows that scale to production. Based in Cambridge, MA, Hugh pairs hands-on research experience with practical product impact and an appetite for challenging multidisciplinary problems—outside work he channels the same problem-solving drive into cycling, sailing and windsurfing.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Aerospace and Aerothermal Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Aerospace and Aerothermal Engineering at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (70)
computational-science10
windows10
parallel-computing10
3d10
cpp10
amr10
scientific-computing10
linux10
macos10
hpc10
root-finding9
julia9
python9
quantum-computing8
api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hughcars/libCEED
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
CEED Library: Code for Efficient Extensible Discretizations
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
hughcars/spack
May 2025 - Jun 2026
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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