Samuel Cupp
Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Cupp is a postdoctoral researcher and computational astrophysicist with nine years of experience building high-performance numerical tools for gravitational physics and astrophysics. He has led development of GRHayL, an infrastructure-agnostic GRMHD library, and contributed core improvements to the Einstein Toolkit’s Cactus/Carpet infrastructure as well as EMRI self-force codes. His work spans production-ready HPC engineering—parallel I/O, checkpointing, and ghost-zone synchronization optimizations—to cutting-edge research in self-consistent gravitational self-force evolution. Now at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he combines deep numerical relativity expertise with practical software engineering to enable scalable simulations on supercomputers. Colleagues rely on his ability to turn complex analytic methods into robust, reusable code used by the community.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Austin Peay State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Louisiana State UniversityMaryville High School
English
Github Skills (24)
routines10
sympy10
automatic10
driver10
primitive9
tower9
hyperbolic9
code-generation9
jupyter-notebook9
python8
infrastructure8
codegen8
svgr7
numerical6
jupyter6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GRHayL/GRHayL
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
GRHayL: an infrastructure-agnostic library for GRMHD.
Contributions:10 reviews, 128 commits, 89 PRs in 3 months
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GRHayL/TestData
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:123 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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