Shimon Panfil
M. Sc. in Physics 1977, Novosibirsk State University ,Novosibirsk, Russia
Ph. D. in theoretical and mathematical physics 1984, Institute of Nuclear Physics,Novosibirsk, Russia
Expertise:- Modeling and simulations of physical phenomena;
- Optimal experiment planning and data analysis;
- Symbolic and numeric computations, numerical analysis;
- Design and implementation of computationally effective algorithms;
- Programming in C/C++,Tcl/Tk, MATLAB, MAPLE, FORTRAN;
- LINUX (UNIX) system programming and system administration;
- Cluster construction and maintenance (PVM, MPI, MOSIX);
- Financial mathematics.
- 17.12.2007 - 24.02.2009 Quantitaive analyst in Superderivatives
- CDO base correlation mapping
- Basic mathematical software for financial computing
- from 01.05.2007 Owner and Chief Scientist of SPIPS
- 05.2002 - 01.2007 Research physicist in Lumenis Ltd
- Researches in the field of the interaction of intensive light and human tissues.
- Built software for simulation of light-tissue interaction comprising:
- 3D Monte Carlo simulation (C),
- solution of 3D heat equation (C),
- GUI and some auxiliary programs (TCL/TK).
- 06.2000 - 10.2001 Senior engineer in Mobilian Corporation
- Built super-computing environment for massive simulation based on the MOSIX cluster(42 nodes),
- developed C++ library for RTL modeling and validation,
- wrote bit- and clock- accurate model of PHY level for 802.11b ( C++).
- 07.1997 - 05.2000 Senior scientist in Odin Technologies Ltd.
- Designed and implemented software for fast computations (C/FORTRAN for PVM-Linux cluster),
- developed new method of permanent magnet design for open MRI.
- 13.12.1992 - 25.06.1997 Senior physicist in Elscint, MRI division.
- Conducted research on on MRI physics,
- programming of MRI system control (C/C++ under UNIX),
- designed and implementated software for optimization of system performance (C/C++, FORTRAN, X/Motif, Maple).
- 1.08.1992 - 12.12.1992 Senior researcher in Technion, Physics Department.
- Physics of rare quark decays.
- 1984 - 1991 Research associate in the Institute for Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Department of theoretical physics (86-91), Software department (84-86).
- Physics on electron-positron colliders and photon-photon colliding beams,
- mathematical aspects of quantization,
- path integral theory,
- group theoretic methods and anomalies,
- stochastic and geometric techniques in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory,
- applications of computers in mathematics and theoretical physics.
- 1977-1984 Research assistant in the Institute of Automation, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- Application of quantum field theory methods to phase transitions and solid state theory.
- Renormalization group methods,
- symbolic and numeric high performance computing.