David Roundy

David Roundy is a physicist, known also as the author of the Darcs version control system.^[1]

David Roundy
Born	(1973-08-24) August 24, 1973 (age 51) United States
Alma mater	U.C. Berkeley
Known for	Creator of Darcs
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Oregon State University

He obtained a B.A. in Physics and Chemistry in 1995 and a Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006 he did postdoctoral work at MIT and Cornell. He was an assistant professor in Physics at Oregon State University from 2006 to 2014, and an associate professor from 2014 to 2022.^[2]

Notable publications

• 2002 - The origin of the anomalous superconducting properties of MgB₂^[3]
• 2010 - Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method^[4]
• 2004 - A tunable carbon nanotube electromechanical oscillator^[5]