Kolen Cheung

Research Software Engineer · Computational Physicist

About

I’m a Research Software Engineer at the University of Exeter with a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley. My work bridges theoretical physics and advanced computational methods, focusing on high-performance scientific computing.

My doctoral research centered on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis, contributing to experiments including POLARBEAR, LiteBIRD, CMB-S4, and serving as Software Deployment Lead at Simons Observatory.

Research Interests

• CMB data analysis and cosmology
• High-performance computing
• Scientific computing in Python
• Gravitational lensing
• Quantum biological modeling

Open Source

I maintain several tools in the Pandoc ecosystem:

• pantable — CSV tables in Markdown
• pandoc-amsthm — LaTeX theorem environments for Pandoc
• pancritic — CriticMarkup support for Pandoc

Connect

• GitHub
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• LinkedIn