Massimo Di Pierro
Scientist, Engineer, Teacher
Ph.D. in High Energy Physics and former manager of simulations at SpaceX. Professor of Computer Science at DePaul University, UC Santa Cruz, and Chapman University, and Director of the Master of Science in Computational Finance. Creator of HiroSim and py4web, with expertise in numerical algorithms, parallel computing, and their applications in science and finance. Member of the Python Software Foundation and author of numerous scientific publications and books.
Technologies
HiroSimIntegrated system for physical AI. Deterministic, event-driven simulation of sensors, actuators, and flight computers, with FCSL control code carried from simulation to SiL/HiL, plus live telemetry and fault injection. Model it, simulate it, fly it.
MeccanicOSA complete workstation on a stick, use it live or install it. Built on NixOS: fast, uncluttered, secure, keyboard driven, encrypted, with sane custom tools.
rigxBuild system based on Nix, configurable in TOML, for hermetic reproducible builds, tests, capsules, and testbeds
py4webModern Full Stack Framework for Rapid Development of Database Driven Web Applications
web2pyAward Winning Legacy Framework for Web Application Development
pydalA database abstraction layer that writes SQL for you
Books
Publications
From recent to old. Only published papers, not including technical reports.
- 2018 — Reputation Systems for News on Twitter: A Large-Scale Study (LIVE)
- 2018 — Toy Vision-Guided 3D Robotic Arm in JavaScript (CODE)
- 2018 — The Raise of Javascript
- 2017 — What is the Blockchain (CODE)
- 2017 — Social Quizzes with Scuiz (LIVE)
- 2014 — Portable Parallel Programs with Python and OpenCL
- 2013 — The new gauge connection at NERSC (LIVE)
- 2013 — QCL OpenCL metaprogramming for lattice qcd
- 2013 — OpenCL Programming using Python Syntax (CODE)
- 2012 — Neutral B meson mixing from three flavor lattice quantum chromodynamics
- 2012 — Concurrency in Modern programming languages
- 2011 — web2py for Scientific Applications (CODE, MORE)
- 2011 — Tuning Fermilab heavy quarks in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD with application to hyperfine splittings
- 2011 — Pattern derivatives
- 2011 — Making QCD Lattice Data Accessible and Organized through Advanced Web Interfaces
- 2011 — Effects of skewness and kurtosis on portfolio rankings
- 2011 — B and D mesons decay constants
- 2010 — Visualization Workflow for Lattice QCD
- 2010 — Vis Online Analysis Tool for Lattice QCD
- 2010 — Quarkonium mass splittings in three flavor lattice QCD
- 2010 — mc4qcd Online Analysis Tool for Lattice QCD (CODE, MORE)
- 2009 — Visualization of semileptonic form factors from lattice QCD
- 2009 — Visualization as a tool for understanding QCD evolution algorithms
- 2009 — The Ds and D Leptonic Decay Constants from Lattice QCD
- 2009 — The BD form factor at zero recoil from three flavor lattice QCD A Model independent determination of Vcb
- 2009 — The B semileptonic form factor from three flavor lattice QCD A Model independent determination of Vub
- 2009 — Quarkonium mass splittings with Fermilab heavy quarks and 21 flavors of improved staggered sea quarks
- 2009 — Progress on charm semileptonic form factors from 21 flavor lattice QCD
- 2009 — Analysis and visualization tools for Lattice QCD
- 2008 — Portfolio rankings with skeness and kurtosis
- 2007 — Visualizations for lattice qcd
- 2007 — The decay constants fB and fD from three flavor lattice QCD
- 2007 — Analysis of ranking factors for a risk averse investor in a non gaussian world
- 2007 — A Visualization Toolkit for lattice Quantum Chromodynamics
- 2007 — A Determination of the B0s and B0d mixing parameters in 21 lattice QCD
- 2006 — Update on onium masses with three flavors of dynamical quarks
- 2006 — Predictive Lattice QCD
- 2006 — Monte Carlo Risk Management
- 2006 — Matrix Distributed Processing and Applications
- 2006 — A study of the Bs B s mass and width difference in 21 flavor lattice QCD
- 2005 — Semileptonic D to pi
- 2005 — Predictions from Lattice QCD
- 2005 — Onium masses with three flavors of dynamical quarks
- 2005 — On Ranking Schemes and Portfolio Selection
- 2005 — Leptonic decay constants fD
- 2005 — Lattice QFT with FermiQCD (MORE)
- 2005 — Charmed meson decay constants in three flavor lattice QCD
- 2005 — B and D meson semileptonic decays in three flavor lattice QCD
- 2005 — An Algorithmic Approach to Quantum Field Theory
- 2004 — www.fermigcd.net Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2004 — Semileptonic decays of D mesons in unquenched lattice QCD 2004 Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2004 — Properties of charmonium in lattice QCD with 2 1 flavors of improved staggered sea quarks Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2004 — High precision lattice QCD confronts experiment
- 2004 — Ds spectrum and leptonic decays with Fermilab heavy quarks and improved staggered light quarks Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2003 — The second moment of the pion light cone wave function 2003 Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2003 — Charmonium with three flavors of dynamical quarks Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2003 — A bird eye view of matrix dirtibuted processing
- 2002 — Nonperturbative tuning of O a2 improved staggered fermions Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2002 — FermiQCD A tool kit for parallel lattice QCD applications Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 2001 — Matrix distributed processing a set of C tools for implementing generic lattice computations on parallel systems Computer Physics Communications
- 2001 — Hadronic decays of exited heavy mesons
- 2001 — Excited heavy light systems and hadronic transitions
- 2000 — The second moment of pions distribution amplitude
- 2000 — Lattice determination of the B B pi coupling
- 2000 — B lifetimes from lattice simulations Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 1999 — Spectator effects in inclusive decays of beauty hadrons Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
- 1999 — An exploratory lattice study of spectator effects in inclusive decays of the b baryon Physics Letters B
- 1998 — Towards a lattice determination of the B B pi coupling
- 1998 — A lattice study of spectator effects in B mesons
- 1996 — Mass confinement and CP invariance in the Seiberg Witten model Physics Letters B