James Smith, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

- Team leader for collaboration with IBM's Quantum Computing team. Worked alongside their research team to deploy our models on their quantum hardware and develop new model architectures to improve efficiency on their hardware.- Lead developer for our open-source C++/Python project fast-pauli, which provides high-performance primitives for simulating.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Developed a highly multithreaded version of the GraphBLAS library in C/C++, using C++17 and Cilk.
• Optimized the multithreaded performance of Lucata’s GraphBLAS implementation by improving the utlization of the Lucata’sproprietary hardware architecture.
• Collaborated with other teams regularly to address bugs and implement new features in the GraphBLAS and other graph analyticslibraries.
• Overhauled the CMake infrastructure for the Lucata software ecosystem and set up continuous integration, testing, code coverage, andstatic linting for nearly all projects.
• Consolidated and improved the CMake build system for Lucata’s custom LLVM 14 compiler.
• Contributed to the LLVM open source project by implementing std::ranges::iota (part of C++23 standard) in libc++, LLVM’s version of theC++ standard library.

An independent postdoc at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) studying and developing novel numerical methods to study strongly correlated problems.

Boulder, CO

My research in the Sharma group focuses on developing new and efficient algorithms to predict electronic properties of chemical and physical systems with the goal of understanding ever more complicated problems. I contribute to several quantum chemistry/physics software packages (Dice, PySCF, and NetKet) used to study these systems.

Greater New York City Area

Implemented a quantum chemistry interface between the NetKet package and PySCF underthe supervision of Dr. Giuseppe Carleo. Studied the applicability of correlated molecular methods to strongly interacting materials under the supervision of Prof. Tim Berkelbach and Dr. Xaio Wang.

Boulder, CO

Worked in the group of J. Mathias Weber studying the effect of solvation on the electronic structure of water oxidation catalysts. Built an IR system to study the vibrational structure of these complexes at cryogenic temperatures.

Boulder, CO

Worked as a TA for undergraduate general chemistry courses. In the spring of 2016, I worked as the head TA. In addition to the typical teaching duties I helped the instructors organize and critique course material as well as mentor younger TAs.

Davidson College Math & Science Center

Work between 5-6 hours a week with other students, who need help with Chemistry or Math. I work with students one on one and in groups ranging from 2-6 students.

Davidson, NC

Conduct research full time in Dr. Striplin's lab, working on improving the dyes used in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.

Davidson, NC

Davidson, NC

Characterized the products of the oxidation of isoprene and methacrolein.

Davidson, NC

Davidson, NC

I work at social events on the Patterson Court, as either the head risk manager or general risk manager.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Physics

Bs, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Chidsey Leadership Fellows, Davidson Outdoors, Relay for Life

Physics, A

Summer Courses

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