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Emil Meintjes

@emilmeintjes

I build Bayesian data pipelines for astrophysics and scientific machine learning.

South Africa
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I'm building Bayesian and Markov Chain Monte Carlo pipelines in Python to model MeerKAT pulsar observations, quantify detection significance, and automate long-term analysis previously completed manually.

My MSc research at the University of Cape Town focuses on determining a long-term timing solution for the white dwarf pulsar J1912−4410. I've presented this work at High Energy Astrophysics of Southern Africa, NRF-SARAO postgraduate and post-doctoral, and International Pulsar Timing Array conferences, and I am a first author in Proceedings of Science.

Across physics and data science projects, I've used PyTorch to find the Higgs Boson in ATLAS Open Data, investigated topological data analysis in particle physics, and simulated entangled-photon propagation with Monte Carlo methods.

I've also implemented SIREN networks to reconstruct MeerKAT radio data, built a generalised linear model for insurance pricing, contributed to a low-cost MRI project, and taught mathematics, physics, and astrophysics.

Experience

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AS

Postgraduate Researcher

Astrophysics

Built modular, multi-stage Bayesian/MCMC pipeline (PyAutoFit and emcee) in Python to model MeerKAT pulsar observations and quantify statistical significance in the signal detections. Automated a long-term data processing analysis that was previously a manual task.

Education

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University of Cape Town logoUT

University of Cape Town

Master of Science, Astronomy

Pursuing an MSc in Astronomy, with a BSc (Honours) in Physics and a BSc majoring in Physics and Astrophysics.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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