Kolen Cheung
Kolen Cheung is a Research Software Engineer with a PhD in Physics (UC Berkeley) specializing in CMB data analysis with a designated emphasis ("graduate minor") in Computational & Data Science & Engineering. Dr. Cheung has contributed to multiple CMB collaborations including POLARBEAR, LiteBIRD, CMB-S4, and served as Software Deployment Lead at Simons Observatory. His current work spans gravitational lensing, quantum biological modeling, and HPC systems, combining theoretical physics with advanced computational methods.
Session
Accelerating scientific Python with JITs. We share our journey migrating a gravitational lensing likelihood calculation from Numba to JAX. Learn about performance gains, automatic differentiation benefits, and practical lessons for high-performance scientific computing in Python.