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, rigorous mathematics, and high-performance scientific computing — guided by a physicist’s instinct to derive before trusting, and to find the structure underneath.

My doctoral research centered on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis — Bayesian inference at petabyte scale — contributing to experiments including POLARBEAR, LiteBIRD, and CMB-S4, and served as Software Deployment Lead at the Simons Observatory.

Research Interests

• CMB data analysis and cosmology
• High-performance computing
• Scientific computing in Python
• Gravitational lensing
• Quantum biological modeling
• Mechanistic interpretability and the mathematical foundations of deep learning
• AI for scientific discovery

Connect

• Blog
• GitHub
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• arXiv
• LinkedIn
• ved.nelok@tcatnoc