Projects

Wind and Spores | Aug 2024 – May 2025

Used: C++, Git, R: RStudio, Rcpp, ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr

Tleco stands for both in the fire and rise in the nahuatl language.
Open Source Code for Simulation of Relativistic Particles Radiation
Numerical code that simulates particles in relativistic plasma, and the rise of radiation from accelerating particles.
Consists of both Rust functions and Python functions previously built in the Fortran code Paramo.

Used: Rust, HDF5, Git, Python: Numpy, Matplotlib, Scipy

Davis, Z., Rueda-Becerril, J.M., Giannios, D. (2024). “Tleco: A Toolkit for Modeling Radiative Signatures from Relativistic Outflows”. The Astrophysical Journal, 976(2), 182, 12. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ad8bc2

Open Source Code for Radiative Transfer Simulations in Relativistic Astrophysics
Independently developed this code for distributed settings to perform HPC simulations of radiative transfer in relativistic astrophysics.
Optimized the code with OpenMP to reduce simulation time from 2 minutes to 5 seconds.
Researched and applied mathematical concepts of machine learning (gradient descent) to adjust the parameters of the code to classify observations from NASA telescopes.
This code has been used for at least 5 scientific publications and also for graduate pedagogical purposes.
Developed data analysis and data visualization tools in Python.

Used: Fortran, HDF5, OpenMP, Git, Python: Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scipy

Rueda-Becerril, J.M., Harrison, A.O., Giannios, D. (2021). “Blazar jets launched with similar energy per baryon, independently of their power”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(3), 4092-4102. DOI:10.1093/mnras/staa3925
Rueda-Becerril, J.M., Harrison, A.O., Giannios, D. (2021). “The blazar sequence revised”. Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 342, Issue 1-2, pp. 147-152. DOI:10.1002/asna.202113895
Rueda-Becerril, J.M. (2021). “A numerical approach for radiative cooling in relativistic outflows”. Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 342, Issue 1-2, pp. 277-282. DOI:10.1002/asna.202113919
Davis, Z., Rueda-Becerril, J.M., Giannios, D. (2022). “Balancing turbulent heating with radiative cooling in blazars “. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(4), 5766-5779. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stac1282
Combi, L., Siegel, D.M. (2023). “GRMHD Simulations of Mergers with Weak Interactions: r-process Nucleosynthesis and Electromagnetic Signatures of Dynamical Ejecta”. The Astrophysical Journal, 944(1), 29. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/acac29

I have a GitHub portfolio that you are welcome to check out!

I have a GitHub repository for my tonalpowalli (the mexihkah count of the days) project (in progress).

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